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Question on employment guarantee scheme`s success

Question on employment guarantee scheme`s success It's been six months since the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) was launched. And now, the government and civil society organisations are at loggerheads over the "success' of the act. While government claims that nrega has achieved a success rate of over 90 per cent, civil society organisations are not ready to buy that. According to them, it is only a clinical assessment, which means it is an estimate derived by studying physical statistics only and not ground reality. The ground reality, according to them, is completely different. Besides, even the fundamental principles of the act have not been implemented in states (see table: Disparate implementation).

Launched on February 2, 2006, across 200 of the poorest districts spread over 27 states, the act guarantees 100 days of unskilled manual work in a year to one adult member of every rural household.It aims at eradicating extreme poverty through productive asset creation (see

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