NREGS is on the way to becoming the most lucrative corruption racket ever made for politicians-------
Even I, who expected nothing good out of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, find its review by Anil Sharma of National Council of Applied Economic Research depressing. Let me relate how my pessimistic predictions have been exceeded.
Governments present budgets to show they are financially responsible. Our government presents them to show its financial irresponsibility. It had told Parliament a year ago that it proposed to spend Rs 7,51,000 crore. A year later, Pranab Mukherjee said it would end up spending Rs 9,01,000 crore
