Recently I was in my village briefly I went around my village and neighboring. I was told that the actual agricultural cultivators are facing labour shortages during various stages (mainly due to NREG). In one sense they thank that there is machine is available for harvesting especially for the paddy.
A friend my mine was complaining about the “The National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme”. Because those who have got opportunity to work in the scheme did not work but they earned pay. Secondly the actual poor were not given work under this scheme. All are non-poor and party workers are given priority.
My friend was also warning these people will ask now to increase the number of working days under the scheme and will ask to make permanent job even they move away from poverty.
The works done under the scheme is unsustainable. It may hardly stay upto next monsoon.
In sum, nine out of ten expects money from government without works. This is also a kind of socialism which the Nehru has created in Independent India.
P Raghavan has a piece in FE according to which the UPA got reelected. He writes “There were 2.12 crore households demanding employment in 2006-07. The numbers rose to 3.43 crore in 2007-08 and to 4.52 crore in 2008-09. The government, in response, was forced to increase the number of households provided employment from 2.1 crore to 3.39 crore and further to 4.46 crore during this period.”
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