On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Deepak Shenoy <deepakshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > While NREGA has seen some people come out of poverty, it is a wasted > effort because as we go we'll see prices move so that those very > people go back to being classified as poor. Instead, the focus on > increasing productivity with the same money would have helped us get a > lot more out of the system - like building roads, which you can't do > under NREGA because it requires a levelling machine at the very least. >
I found this really weird in NREGA ... the requirement that no mechanized equipment can be used. What was the motivation behind it ?
