A labor guarantee what else. More people can be put to work for longer, however inefficiently. Use machinery and less people do the job in less time
Like the old chola kings digging canals to provide employment for their subjects -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: ashok _ <listmans...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:23:05 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit 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 ?
