MNREGA provisions should not be diluted: Economists to PM
15 Oct 2014 6:20 AM IST
Several leading economists have said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not dilute the provisions of the rural work guarantee programme, MNREGA, which has provided economic security to millions of poor.
The signatories to an open letter to the Prime Minister include Dilip Abreu (Princeton University), Pranab Bardhan (University of California Berkeley), V Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin), Jean Dr?ze (Visiting Professor, Ranchi University), Abhijit Sen (former Member, Planning Commission) and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University).
The MNREGA, they said, was enacted in 2005 with unanimous support from all political parties and it will have a ‘far reaching’ impact on the much-needed economic security to the lives of millions of people who are on the margins of subsistence.
‘For the first time, the Central Government is imposing caps on MNREGA expenditure on state governments, undermining the principle of work on demand,’ they said in the letter.
The signatories to an open letter to the Prime Minister include Dilip Abreu (Princeton University), Pranab Bardhan (University of California Berkeley), V Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin), Jean Dr?ze (Visiting Professor, Ranchi University), Abhijit Sen (former Member, Planning Commission) and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University).
The MNREGA, they said, was enacted in 2005 with unanimous support from all political parties and it will have a ‘far reaching’ impact on the much-needed economic security to the lives of millions of people who are on the margins of subsistence.
‘For the first time, the Central Government is imposing caps on MNREGA expenditure on state governments, undermining the principle of work on demand,’ they said in the letter.
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