Relevance : GS Paper III
The latest Economic Survey does not take a comprehensive view of the implementation of MGNERGA.
Reasons why Survey’s presentation of MGNREGA is misleading
- A lack of adequate financial allocation, pending liabilities and low wages have dogged the MGNREGA.
- Wage payments to MGNREGA workers happen in two stages.While it is true that delays in the first stage have reduced, those in the second stage continue to be unacceptably high.
- Survey attributes an increase in demand for and supply of work in drought-affected areas to Aadhaar ignoring other crucial factors.
- Surveywrongfully wholly attributes positive targeting of the MGNREGA —women, Dalits and Adivasis – to the introduction of Aadhaar..
- It completely ignores numerous instances where technology has resulted in violation of workers’ rights under the MGNREGA.
Conclusion
Overlooking these fundamental issues, cherry-picking studies and using flawed analyses to justify technocracy is an example of ethical paralysis.
