No food for five days, NREG card holder watches husband die
It was a death that could have been avoided. A landless labourer, Kishen Singh (45), died on Christmas day after going without food for five days in this south Rajasthan village. Neither he nor his wife Ganga, a job card holder under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, knew that they could demand work or avail unemployment benefits as a right under the NREGA.
Publication Date:
11/01/2010