NREGP SCAN Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 26, 2008, 0:51 IST The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) was meant for the poorest of the poor, those who will sweat it out in the heat for survival. Reports from villages where the scheme has been implemented suggest that might not always be true. A study carried out by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) this year says food-secure households got more work days compared to those who are food-insecure. The survey covered 3,200 poorest households in 80 villages in seven states and came out with the conclusion that once people got job cards, a selection bias operates within the scheme which tends to keep out the most needy. Those who benefited the most were the better-offs among the households