It was a death that could have been avoided. A landless labourer, Kishen Singh (45), died on Christmas day after going without food for five days in this south Rajasthan village. Neither he nor his wife Ganga, a job card holder under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, knew that they could demand work or avail unemployment benefits as a right under the NREGA. Champakheda is only 11 km off the Chittorgarh-Udaipur highway, and 75 km from Bhilwara where a social audit of NREGA in October was carried out by the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). But no information percolated to Kishen Singh