The garibi hatao
chant was initiated by the indian supremo Indira Gandhi in 1984 when the
opposition raised slogan "indira hatao" and now there's a mere change
in the slogan and the both sides of the major parties are interchanged, now the
slogan for ruling party is " congress hatao " and for that of the
opposition it is " ab hoga nyay ",
but are these chants from both ruling party and the opposition impirical?
When the aim is to mitigate poverty, the one scheme that hits my mind in the very first place is MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) by the UPA-1 govt. , it was one of the most ambitious programmes to uplift the rural poor , by providing 100 days of guaranteed work at a minimum wage to any rural family suffering from chronic unemployment. The amount for the scheme earmarked by Manmohan Singh is 0.6% of the gdp, it provided work to 50 million people and brought 14 million people out of poverty. The minimum wage in rural areas rose from 65 rs per day in 2005 to 162 rs in 2013. Also the per capita rural income went up from 2.7% in 1999 and 2004 to 9.7% between 2006 and 2011. Yet Mr. Modi considered the scheme as a disaster. But after the NDA govt. came to power in 2014, the budget allocation for MNREGA was record high but the disbursement of the money was not fair and as a result of this, the minimum wage of rural poor went down along with the minimum days of employment of an individual worker went down from 100 days to 45 days in 2017-18, at a time when the budget allocation for MNREGA was at a record high of rs 61,0814 crore/- . Its not wrong to say that the Modi govt. wrecked havoc with a scheme recognized by the United Nations for poverty eradication. Now the challenge for the next party in power will be the disbursement of the wages in the states where the balance is negative (in 15 states) with special focus on gujarat, where the gap between MNREGA wage (rs 194) and minimum agricultural wage ( rs 298 ) is the largest. Not only that, India ranked 100 out of 119 countries in terms of malnutrition established by IFPRI. Now the solution is the rapid mitigation of negative balance of the 15 states and rapid increase in wages to reach about 80 % of rural poor at a time. This brings the NYAY scheme in light which will give pace to the minimum wages of the rural poor and a constructive MNREGA scheme in which the disbursement will be fair and equal.
but are these chants from both ruling party and the opposition impirical?
When the aim is to mitigate poverty, the one scheme that hits my mind in the very first place is MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) by the UPA-1 govt. , it was one of the most ambitious programmes to uplift the rural poor , by providing 100 days of guaranteed work at a minimum wage to any rural family suffering from chronic unemployment. The amount for the scheme earmarked by Manmohan Singh is 0.6% of the gdp, it provided work to 50 million people and brought 14 million people out of poverty. The minimum wage in rural areas rose from 65 rs per day in 2005 to 162 rs in 2013. Also the per capita rural income went up from 2.7% in 1999 and 2004 to 9.7% between 2006 and 2011. Yet Mr. Modi considered the scheme as a disaster. But after the NDA govt. came to power in 2014, the budget allocation for MNREGA was record high but the disbursement of the money was not fair and as a result of this, the minimum wage of rural poor went down along with the minimum days of employment of an individual worker went down from 100 days to 45 days in 2017-18, at a time when the budget allocation for MNREGA was at a record high of rs 61,0814 crore/- . Its not wrong to say that the Modi govt. wrecked havoc with a scheme recognized by the United Nations for poverty eradication. Now the challenge for the next party in power will be the disbursement of the wages in the states where the balance is negative (in 15 states) with special focus on gujarat, where the gap between MNREGA wage (rs 194) and minimum agricultural wage ( rs 298 ) is the largest. Not only that, India ranked 100 out of 119 countries in terms of malnutrition established by IFPRI. Now the solution is the rapid mitigation of negative balance of the 15 states and rapid increase in wages to reach about 80 % of rural poor at a time. This brings the NYAY scheme in light which will give pace to the minimum wages of the rural poor and a constructive MNREGA scheme in which the disbursement will be fair and equal.
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