Non-government activists Aruna Roy and Jean Dreze, who are widely regarded as architects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP), boycotted its fourth anniversary celebrations......
The first meeting of the newly-reconstituted Central Employment Guarantee Council last week, meant to oversee the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, saw two prominent members, Jean......
The purpose of the rural job scheme is being defeated as, in this drought year, focus on providing work and timely wages is lost in other things, economist and activist Jean Dreze tells Sreelatha......