Capturing imagination of stakeholders: national rural employment guarantee act

The focus of the book, which is based on field experiences and observation, is to fervently seek and ensure that NREGA does not fall in the pattern of employment schemes. It looks at the steps necessary to take for those implementing and how the NREGA potential can be furthered to meet community expectations. We are convinced of one fact-a -a mere right to employment cannot by itself make NREGA succeed, it must be accompanied by other triggers and inputs such as food security, a new paradigm in choosing and implementing "works" and building "assets", approach to agricultural development in the dryland areas, building of workers organizations, a societal compact and attendant public policy and investments. Our bottom line is simple and sought by the Father of the Nation-hunger must go and people must be confident of their food, as only then will development take a trajectory and emerge a multiplier.