Sinha, Amarjeet  <br/><br/>
Getting real on rural: MGNREGS, Rural livelihoods, incomes and employment 

 - IIPA Digest   
 - 5(1), Jan-Mar, 2023: p.16-17 
<br/><br/> “So that’s the story. Decades of public intervention, however tardy or inefficient, in everything from the provision of food, housing, education and health care to roads, power, and telecommunications and circulatory migration to distant labour markets across the country – i.e., the visible hand of the state combined with the invisible hand of the market – has radically transformed the lives of these villagers in one of the remotest and most backward corners of India. Poverty has not been eliminated. Most of the people we met are still very poor. But the haunting images of extreme deprivation, emaciated and hungry people in tatters I saw everywhere 45 years ago have mercifully disappeared.” Sudipto Mundle, Live Mint 2022, makes a brilliant summary of what he saw. He is indeed very real on rural.- Reproduced