The death of a lifeline called NREGA https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/the-death-of-a-lifeline-called-mgnrega Ajit Ranade
VB–GRAMG dismantles the justiciable right to work; it recentralises control, shifts the fiscal burden to states and weakens labour’s bargaining power in rural India.
NREGA gave legal status to the State’s obligation—under Article 41 of the Constitution—to secure the right to work, turning it into an enforceable entitlement
. The EGS was financed through a tax on urban workers and backed by a statutory guarantee of rural employment. Its genius lay in its
simplicity: work on demand, locally determined public works, and wages paid as a matter of right
The design of EGS itself was inspired by pilot projects implemented in the early 1960s, under the leadership of V.S. Page, a dhoti-clad Gandhian, who was the Speaker of Maharashtra’s Legislative Council for a record 18 years