NREGA and rural water management in India by Nitin Bassi
Channel: IndiaWater Portal
Date: 2013-02-26

In this talk presented at the IWMI-TATA Annual Partners' meet at Anand, Gujarat in November 2012, Nitin Bassi begins with an overview of the status of NREGA in the country, and then goes into a discussion of how it impacts employment and access to water.It addresses the question of why employment generation does not match the potential of MGNREGA. This talk presents a lot of pertinent statistical information about MGNREGA. It also addresses the ways and means of addressing emerging concerns about the scheme and of making the water management interventions more effective. The study classifies the various water interventions into three typologies and suggests management mechanisms for each.
For more about the meet, visit here: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/iwmi-tata-apm-2012