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Posted: Saturday , Dec 30, 2006 at 0000 hrs

After the intense conversations and debates around the

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005,
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in earlier job guarantee schemes. It listed 13 fatal flaws
that had undermined earlier initiatives: lack of
awareness among local communities about its
existence, lack of community participation, lack of
planning, sub-standard quality of assets created, false
muster rolls, problems of payments, contractors
persisted with, diversion of funds, weak monitoring and
verification systems, no comprehensive data base,
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The NAC hoped to overcome these fatal flaws by ensuring that the NREGS gives work on demand, that
no contractor is recruited for carrying out the works, that payment would be made on every seventh day,
that muster rolls would be maintained on the work site itself, and that a social audit would be carried out
with the involvement of the local people to ensure accountability. So far the NREGS appears to have
been successful in avoiding only two of 13 listed flaws. From all evidence, contractors have been kept
away from these sites and there has been a streamlining of the job guarantee programmes on offer — it
is the NREGS that has emerged the flagship project in these 200 districts. As for the other flaws
highlighted by the NAC, they are both ubiquitous and persistent, despite the extraordinary attention paid
to the Scheme by those at the highest echelon of government.
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