NREGS has a strong rights-based perspective. The facilitation of the basic right of a decent job which requires complementary social supports such as insurance, gender equity, child care, financial literacy, awareness building, etc., is critical to it. The setting up of social supports and enhancing the efficiency of delivery, all point to the need for linking this scheme to a development ladder where the investment into social supports pays dividends in the form of productive, skilled and economically independent human resource.

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