Revamped version of MGNREGA to be unveiled on November 14; focus to iron out administrative glitches


A revamped version of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the government's flagship social sector programme, will be unveiled on November 14.

The makeover, crafted by rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and Planning Commission member Mihir Shah, promises to iron out administrative glitches that have dogged the six-year-old scheme, credited for boosting incomes but panned for stoking inflation.

"We are ready with version 2 of MGNREGA. It will basically strengthen the administrative structures of the scheme," said Jairam Ramesh.

With an allocation of Rs 40,000 crore, the scheme is the centre's most expensive social sector programme and is seen as a major factor behind the UPA's return to power in 2009. But now the perception is that it is failing to deliver, primarily owing to a lack of administrative capacity to plan, implement and monitor operations at the grass-root level......Read More

 

Source: Economic Times


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