A review of implementation of NREGS in West Bengal. Concludes that state’s NREGS programme is abysmally poor, despite the fact that there are committees and councils existing at various levels to monitor and review the programme.
NREGA is the only Act in this country that ensures guaranteed employment to the people who want to engage in manual labor. With enforcement of the act everybody expected that this act will not only enhance income level of the poor people in India but also reduce distress migration which is one of the chronic problems in the state of West Bengal. Unfortunately, even after 4 years of enforcement of act status of implementation of the State’s NREGS programme is abysmally poor, despite the fact that there are committees and councils existing at various levels to monitor and review the programme. Due to various lapses, leakages and lack of political will, NREGA implementation is far from the satisfactory. This low level of implementation has had a negative impact on the thousands of poor people in the state who are deprived from the benefits of the act.