Is anything new ? Even with out the survey a little bit educate and wise people would have known .the credibility of the elected representative must be lowest in the world . We can not think of anything which is clean where the government is spending money . May be we have improved from Rajeev Gandhi's time and tosay may be one paisa actually goes to the scheme actually intended.
Re: Rural job scheme is a complete failure.
by prem k on Jul 24, 2011 02:22 AM
Yes... I agree with you on this. This is one of the main reasons for increased food prices in the last few years. While it is important that the farmer who toils gets decent wage, it is equally important to ensure that people work to earn their wage. Otherwise it will simply lead to inflation and affect the hard-working people instead, which is what is happening today.
Re: Rural job scheme is a complete failure.
by Raj kumar on Jul 24, 2011 02:40 PM
The only one reason for the increase in food price is this bulls.. scheme. Every industry has been affected by this crap. Farmers are not getting people to work on the field. Constructions industry is also badly affected. There is no productivity. The artificial wages(Without doing any work) given to everyone is creating inflation at the same bringing down the productivity. I have seen so many of them complaining about non-availability of labor. some of my relatives(Who are farmers) have reduced their crop cultivation area. The Idiots in Congress will always keep our country in this way. It is hightime we send this idiots to gallows
Re: Rural job scheme is a complete failure.
by Jyoti Kumar on Jul 24, 2011 08:58 AM
Labourers should be paid more and not less. If farmers can not find the labour because of NREGA then they should use other techniques, increase the food prices or quit farming. At present inflation if a person does not even earn 3-4 thousand per month then how they will run their family. Besides, the program may guarantee 100 days work but as the report says labourers do not get more than 47 days work. How does it affect farming when labourers are free for 300 days in 365 days? 100 days means they get jobs only for 3 months and remain unemployed/search for jobs for rest of the 9 months. When middle class cannot make ends meet with 10,000 or 20,000, how labourers can live on 3-4 thousand per month.
There may be corruption and inefficiency in the program but the argument that it has increased food prices is completely bogus. Food prices are increasing because of several other factors, mostly because of high diesel prices and inflation.
Re: Re: Rural job scheme is a complete failure.
by mohan reddy on Jul 24, 2011 03:07 PM
Jyothi, Probably you have never been to villages off late. Check it for yourselves how much area is being cultivated annually in the last decade. You will understand it. Farmers will not use diesel for crop production. The biggest tragedy is, even the farmers are queuing up at NREGA scheme for work, as it is easy to work under this scheme than work in their own fields!! The work allotted by this scheme is a big waste. It is not productive at all. I have seen where 32 people had loaded 5 tractor loads of tank silt in a day. A machine could have done it within 30 min. The labor could have been put to some productive purpose. A small farmer's fields could have been harvested, or sown or weeded, and this would have provided additional grains to the country. How can you expect food grain production to increase. Wait for another 5 years. You will see how much more you will be paying for food. Added to this, the populist schemes announced by certain states will provide enough monthly grains for a family at RS. 250-300. Hard working individuals have started to go for large acre farming, where they buy 30-40 acres of land so that they can use machines to a larger extent. Small and marginal farmers will be wiped out in the medium term. Get ready to grow your food without depending on labor!!
The idiots who proposed this does not know in many ways the government funds will be misused in this country. There is no one to overlook whether the work is really being done, is it necessary or whether the workers are doing their part by putting their actual effort.
All the workers does is some time pass and get their wage. This made them lazy (off course who likes to work hard) and they are not willing to work in the farms like they do before. Not to blame the workers but the government for lack of response. Farmers in the villages are the one who are seriously affected because of this and end up paying more to get workers during farming season. Hopeless governments never think about anything before starting something new.
Re: Scheme without checking the ground reality
by NEELAKANTAN R on Jul 23, 2011 08:20 PM
One hundred percent correct. this scheme is a fraud on the human being
Re: Scheme without checking the ground reality
by Prashant Bhagat on Jul 24, 2011 12:04 AM
Are you one of the rich farmers who was exploiting the poor rural youth for cheap. Due to this scheme those people will get more from those rich farmers.
Re: Re: Scheme without checking the ground reality
by prem k on Jul 24, 2011 02:32 AM
Wrong. Farmers may earn a little more, but rich land owners (nothing called rich farmers) who use farm laborers will not be impacted because they will simply raise the price of the agricultural produce. This will result in increased food prices leading to a high inflation. So the increased wages of the poor farmer gets lost in the increased inflation. This is precisely what is happening for the last 4-5 years since NREGA was introduced.
The condition of poor farm laborers cannot be improved by bogus schemes like NREGA. Govt has to regulate the farming industry vigorously and ensure that farmers get paid reasonably while the middlemen and wholesalers commission gets reduced. No political party, including the ones that claim to work for the interests of labor class such as left parties, will do it because they need donations from these rich land owners, wholesalers and middlemen.
NREGA has killed the food production and directly causing food inflation. Also its causing labor shortage in most of the places. I think its required only in select few places. Implimtneting in pan india for the sake of votes is unwarranted.
Re: NREGA
by David Coulthard on Jul 21, 2011 09:43 PM
you are correct sir/madam. I myself own an agricultural plot and it was a harrowing time finding labor. I now indulge in only those crops that need minimal maintenance and use Organic manure, drip, modern scientific non-chemical technologies to mainitain the farm. Masanobu Fukuoka really should be appreciated for enlightening us with the "zero farming" concept
puppet let pole dancer never comfartable running the government, but almost 22 crore morons few foot licker / slaves of India choose them again. God save this country form morons.
