National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Opportunities & Challenges Every person who digs a pond, renovates an irrigation canal and plants a tree contributes a bit to poverty alleviation in India. Under NREGA more than one percent of India’s population should have done that in the last eight months. That is the development potential of NREGA. Has it happened for sure?

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Opportunities & Challenges More than one percent of India’s population has got employment It covers the poorest 200 districts Targeted at 60 percent of India’s poor It covers effectively percent of country’s rural workers

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Opportunities & Challenges Growth is not generating employment All employment generation programmes have failed to generate employment Huge work force is becoming useless May lead to social strifes

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Opportunities & Challenges First ‘Act’ not a scheme Focuses on village sustainable development Make Panchayats responsible Backed by political will