NREGA Funding so far:

The NREGA website has a report about fund allocations for this programe given below.
FY – 2010-11 – Rs. 14752 Crore ( as of now.. ie, for half year.. it will exceed beyond
30,000 crore at the end of this Financial year.
FY-2009-10, – Rs. 20692 Crore
FY -2008-09 – Rs. 11514 crore

So more than 60,000 crore has been spent so far, just to destroy the entire rural society
across india. This amount has been a waste, and NOT useful even to the workers
themselves.

No one is there to question the government, on what is the rationality in spending such
huge tax payers money, just to make those hard working farm labourers to sit idle in
some unproductive jobs.

Outcome of this Programme:

The farming sector is already under heavy stress due to globalisation, and money power
attacking the rural area. The industries took away considerable number of labours from
villages. The farmers were some how managing these extreme hardships without any
government support. The village economy some how functioned.

Today, the extreme imbalance of money power, has skyrocketed land prices even in
distant villages. Already villagers were demotivated to farming, because of this negative
money flow.

In such circumstances, the NREGA is the last straw to break the rural society. Farmers
will stop doing agriculture, and food production will decrease, which will increase food
prices.

Is NREGA a conspiracy?

Its known, right from independance, congress has extreme contempt for anything rural.
Nehru believed, rural india is a liability. And today MamMohan singh also says the same
and asks farmers to move out of farming. Chidambaram says, in US only 1% of people
in agriculture, and here in india more than 60% are in farming, and that’s why we could
not develop.

Next, the government officials who formulated this NREGA programme are NOT
ignorant persons, but a well trained IAS officers. It is a basic common sense, that if
workers are lured away from farmers, the farming will collapse because of lack of labour.
Inspite of this, the government persists with this disastrous programme.

Considering all these, its evident that NREGA is a secret Conspiracy ( ofcourse,
conspiracies should be secret ) to destroy the rural india. Why for? To force corporate
sector in to farming. As of now, large agri population is a barrier for this corporatisation,
where government could not directly take over land. Hence they are devising ways to
drive farmers out, and then take the land.

I predict, that in the coming years, the government will cite food crisis as a reason, and
then propose establishing Special Agri Zone, for facilitating corporate companies.

The National Rural Eradication programme will serve its full purpose at that time.

I had an interesting debate long back in this post about NREGA, and most of the people
there hailed this programme as something a saviour of rural india. This is what the
opinion of the english eduated urbanites so far. For them, corporatisation is the only
window to everything in life, with money, markets, consumerism taking centre stage. It
would be a doubt, if they could understand the rural society even a bit. And it is they
who have all the influence at the policy making circles.

Its a bane on india, that those who dont even have an ioto of idea about farming is taking
policy decisions for rural india, and the real farmers had no say in it.