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Watering It Down [1]

The Employment Guarantee Act is a diluted version of the original proposal. Will it be effective?

Amartya Sen calls it cause for jubilation. Giving some of the poorest people in the country a reliable source of income through 100 days of guaranteed employment can be an enormously important instrument for improving their well-being, says the Nobel laureate.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2005
Latha Jishnu [2]
Business World (Kolkata) [3]
Tags:
Water Conservation [4], Water Harvesting [5], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [6], Unemployment [7], Maharashtra [8]
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