Swati Narayan

Stories by Swati Narayan

Why NYAY cannot be expected to deliver justice

Rediff.com 18 May 2019

The centre pays only an insulting Rs 200 per pensioner each month at a tight-fisted 0.04 per cent of GDP, among the lowest in the world. Instead, as illustrated by Jean Drze, one option is for NYAY to provide individual rather than household entitlements to all pensioners of at least Rs 1200 per month.

Half full, half empty: 10 years of NREGA

Rediff.com 10 Feb 2016

At its peak five years ago, it was a lifeline for 5.5 crore, or one in every three rural homes