Sunday, June 20, 2010

Worthiness of social infrastructure projects-1

MNREGA or Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, yet another Social scheme by government of India providing enhancement of live hood security with 100 days guaranteed wage. This is the brief description of a face changing project of our poor villages for which we have allocated 40,000 Cr in this financial year.This comes after our spend of another similar sum on Antyodaya project providing food grains at 2-3 rupees to people under poverty line.Still there is a ongoing bid between political parties for further reduction from this price to prove who is really with poor people.Yes project like this always help full to politician retain their position as a very big part of our population still believe that all this because of grate leader's kindness.As very few realize, truth is just mirror image.Politicians are mere middle men who selflessly wasting the taxpayer's money for their popularity in the process earning substantial share for them and followers.I am going north, should come back to my topic.

We all very much known about our red tapisim,worlds best.When projects like this get implemented,almost 30% is sucked on way.But what is more worrying this time with the NREGA is
1.The works are done by local in a on-organised way that do not take care on quality front or you can say the using life time of a work is very short, so it is practically wasting of resources and money.
2.Every job gives a working experience to the handler but works under NREGA do not improve much skill.So once the job completed they come back to beginning.


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