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NaMo, announce a National Water Grid Authority NOW.
Swacch Bharat needs Swacch Paani. Move the flood waters of Brahmaputra to Kanyakumari watering the entire country's farms and providing potable water to every tap in every home. This will empower 45 crore Bharatiya as landowners and ensure 24x7 swacch paani to every farm and home. This will employ all youth in all 675 districts with 6.2 lakh villages.
Outline
A proporal to cap MNREGA to 200 districts has provoked psec economists to write an open letter to NaMo.
I suggest that an alternative to MNREGA is a National Water Grid which will immediately employ youth in ALL districts of the nation. Hon'ble SC has already given the roadmap in an unprecedented land-mark judgement endorsing the Interlinking of Rivers. This project can be expanded with a contour canal along the Sahyadri ranges, paralleling the Konkan Railway to augment the waters flowing in east-flowing rivers south of Vindhyas.
The potential of the National Water Grid is enormous to make and sustain Swacch Bharat by ensuring 24x7 water supply to every farm and to every home in everyone of 6.2 lakh villages.
It has the potential to make 9 crore Bharatiya families land owners of 9 crore acres of additional wet land with assured irrigation which will be created by the National Water Grid. 9 crore additional families becoming landowners of 1 acre per family means that about 45 crore Bharatiyas will be direct beneficiaries of the wealth and provide an opportunity to involve every panchayat in 675 districts of 6.2 lakh villages.
The Grid will also result in creation of an additional infrastructure of National Waterways to complement other transport systems of the nation.
NaMo, announce a National Water Grid Authority NOW.
Swacch Bharat needs Swacch Paani. Move the flood waters of Brahmaputra to Kanyakumari watering the entire country's farms and providing potable water to every tap in every home.
Kalyanaraman
Don’t dilute UPA’s MNREGA, it provides economic security: Economists to PM
The letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi argues that capping it to 200 districts and restricting state spending will dilute MNREGA's benefits.
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/dont-dilute-upas-mnrega-it-provides-economic-security-economists-to-pm/#sthash.DZdfetM4.dpuf
http://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2014/10/mnrega-backed-by-psec-economists.html
NaMo, announce a National Water Grid Authority NOW.
Swacch Bharat needs Swacch Paani. Move the flood waters of Brahmaputra to Kanyakumari watering the entire country's farms and providing potable water to every tap in every home. This will empower 45 crore Bharatiya as landowners and ensure 24x7 swacch paani to every farm and home. This will employ all youth in all 675 districts with 6.2 lakh villages.
Outline
A proporal to cap MNREGA to 200 districts has provoked psec economists to write an open letter to NaMo.
I suggest that an alternative to MNREGA is a National Water Grid which will immediately employ youth in ALL districts of the nation. Hon'ble SC has already given the roadmap in an unprecedented land-mark judgement endorsing the Interlinking of Rivers. This project can be expanded with a contour canal along the Sahyadri ranges, paralleling the Konkan Railway to augment the waters flowing in east-flowing rivers south of Vindhyas.
The potential of the National Water Grid is enormous to make and sustain Swacch Bharat by ensuring 24x7 water supply to every farm and to every home in everyone of 6.2 lakh villages.
It has the potential to make 9 crore Bharatiya families land owners of 9 crore acres of additional wet land with assured irrigation which will be created by the National Water Grid. 9 crore additional families becoming landowners of 1 acre per family means that about 45 crore Bharatiyas will be direct beneficiaries of the wealth and provide an opportunity to involve every panchayat in 675 districts of 6.2 lakh villages.
The Grid will also result in creation of an additional infrastructure of National Waterways to complement other transport systems of the nation.
NaMo, announce a National Water Grid Authority NOW.
Swacch Bharat needs Swacch Paani. Move the flood waters of Brahmaputra to Kanyakumari watering the entire country's farms and providing potable water to every tap in every home.
Kalyanaraman
Don’t dilute UPA’s MNREGA, it provides economic security: Economists to PM
The letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi argues that capping it to 200 districts and restricting state spending will dilute MNREGA's benefits.
Written by Surabhi | New Delhi | Posted: October 14, 2014 12:56 pm
Leading economists have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to not dilute the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) as the scheme provides economic security to millions of poor and helps create productive assets.
“We are writing to express our deep concern about the future of India’s NREGA,” said the letter to the Prime Minister that was written by 28 leading economists Jean Dreze, a member of the erstwhile National Advisory Council and Abhijit Sen, former member of the Planning Commission.
The letter, which was written in the backdrop of the NDA government’s plans to re-work the UPA’s flagship scheme, argues that capping it to 200 districts, restricting state spend and revising the labour-material ratio would dilute its benefits.
Pointing out that the scheme, which was started in 2005 with cross-party support has achieved significant results, the economists have said, “At a relatively small cost (currently 0.3 per cent of India’s GDP), about 50 million households are getting some employment at NREGA worksites every year. A majority of NREGA workers are women, and close to half are Dalits or Adivasis. A large body of research shows that the NREGA has wide-ranging social benefits, including the creation of productive assets.”
The economists have also raised concerns over the NDA government’s plans to restrict the ambit of the scheme to just the country’s 200 poorest districts, arguing that it goes against the basic premise of the Act.
The economists have also argued that wages under the scheme have been frozen in real terms while delays in payments have further depleted their real value. “The Act’s initial provisions for compensation in the event of delayed payments have been removed. The labour-material ratio is sought to be reduced from 60:40 to 51:49 without any evidence that this would raise the productivity of NREGA works,” the letter has stated.
Further, they have noted that by imposing caps on NREGA expenditure on state governments the Centre is undermining the principle of work on demand.
The signatories to the letter include Dilip Abreu, professor of economics, Princeton University, Pranab Bardhan, emeritus professor of economics, University of California Berkeley, Anirban Kar , associate professor, Delhi School of Economics and Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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