01162nam a22001337a 4500 533234 533234 260430b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Dreze, Jean and Khera, Reetika 60351 Employment guarantee: Repeal in lieu of repair Economic & Political Weekly 61(15), Apr 11, 2026: p.23-26 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was the outcome of a sustained deliberative process that gave it some mettle. Within a few years, the act became a lifeline for the rural poor with wide-ranging benefits. Later on, however, interlinked problems of erratic payments, centralisation, technocracy and corruption undermined the programme. The Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, rushed through Parliament last December to replace MGNREGA, defuses the employment guarantee without addressing any of these implementation issues. Perhaps the time has come for state governments to consider framing their own employment guarantee acts.-Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/commentary/employment-guarantee.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408404 IIPA IIPA 2026-04-30 61(15), Apr 11, 2026: p.23-26 AR138745 2026-04-30 AR