It is actually a good idea to fit rural patterns of seasonal employment (during the sowing and harvest seasons, not at all during droughts etc) .. Prevents them from emigrating en masse to the cities to get even worse labor at far cheaper rates
-- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:01:13 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit On Feb 21, 2012 11:29 AM, "Ingrid" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 21 February 2012 07:23, ashok _ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I found this really weird in NREGA ... the requirement that no >> mechanized equipment can be used. What was the motivation behind it ? > > >> >> Limiting NREGA work to back-breaking physical labour at less than minimum wage available for a maximum of 100 days a year to only one member of each household ensures that only the most desperately poor sign up for it. And not all of it is bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NREGS_(Kerala)
