source: The Hindu Business Line
National Rural
Employment Guarantee Programme
SEWA’S
Perceptions and implications - A Perspective note
By Reema Nanavaty & Divya Pandya
This note
provides an illustrative list of skilled and semi skilled
operations that directly contribute to livelihood creation
in the context of National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act... and also presents
Sustainable Livelihood Creation Through Non Traditional
Economic Activities basing on SEWA EXPERIENCE IN JEEVIKA
PROGRAMME
Key issues in implementation framework of NREGA in AP
By K. S. GOPAL ;
Centre
for Environment Concerns, Hyderabad
This
power point presentation stresses on certain key aspects to
plan and implement the NREGA true to its intent and
potential...
Integrating
Dryland Agriculture Support Systems and Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme
By
Ravindra A and Dr. N.K. Sanghi
WASSAN
For
dryland agriculture (and the poor dependent on it) to
benefit, the public support systems should be couched in
such a way that the basic requirements or frame conditions
of dryland agriculture ecosystems are met.... Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme is an opportunity to promote or
establish such support systems as much of the requirements
for regenerating dryland agriculture are labour
intensive....
NREG Bill: Fine-tuning will make it work better
By Bhanoji Rao
Professor Emeritus,
GITAM Institute of Foreign Trade,
Visakhapatnam.
bhanoji@vsnl.net)
...The
National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill goes beyond
describing a set of employment generating schemes, and goes
into the nitty-gritty, listing the broad responsibilities of
the officials at the district, block and panchayat levels.
Tweaked slightly and implemented as an Act, it can over time
evolve into a means of rapid, all-round infrastructure
development in rural India...
It is time for Kumbhakarna to wake up
By Utsa Patnaik
Professor
of Economics,
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
...Rural
India is in acute distress, which is bound to turn to
turmoil if its crisis is not addressed. It is not too late.
There is a strong case for a universal employment guarantee
and a universal Public Distribution System...
Experiences with Employment Guarantees, from UNDP India 18
Aug 2005
http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/emp/cr/res18010605.doc
This
global Poverty Network CR gives examples and GLOBAL
experiences of rural wage employment/ self employment
schemes run by governments.
Experiences with Employment Guarantee Legislation, from UNDP,
India, 13 Oct 05
http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/emp/cr/res18010604.doc
This
global Poverty Reduction Network & Democratic Governance
Network CR gives examples
of food-for-work and employment Guarantee schemes in various
countries.
Panchayats implementing NREGA in backward districts, from
NIPFP, New Delhi, 13 Dec 05
http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/decn/cr/cr-se-decn
13120501.doc
This
Decentralization Community CR offers valuable ideas
regarding implementation of NREGA in different parts of the
country, with special reference to the backward districts.
Capacity-building of PRIs, from Debate, Bhopal, 16 August
2005
http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/decn/cr/cr-se-decn-16080502.doc
This Decentralization Community CR offers ideas on PRI
capacity building training, and information organizations
that could be contacted for detailed material and
assistance.
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