TY - BOOK ED - Samarthan centre for development support TI - National NREGA status report April 2006 - March 2007 U1 - 331.12042 PY - 2008/// CY - Bhopal PB - Samarthan centre for development support KW - National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (India) KW - India. -- National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 N1 - 1. Introduction - Salient features of NREGA - Rationale for the study - Methodoly - Study period - Limitation of the study 2. NREGA from Media's view - Media coverage on NREGA - Coverage before implementation of the act - Coverage during implementation of the act - Key observations from the coverage 3. National Performance of NREGA - Composite ranking of states implementing NREGA - Performance on various demensions of the programme - District ranking on NREGA 4. Performace of instituions involved in implementing NREGS: Challenges encountered - Centre and the deserving states missed an opportunity - Poor districts poorer pace - Dying local wisdom: Helpless local bodies - Buried under the administrative overload - Blocked money lost face of Sarpanch in NREGS - Land encroached/lockedhelpless panchayats face lack of choice - Unfaircompletion between the departmwnts and panchayats - Technically unsound: Unfair treatment against panchayats - Imposed top down programmes: plantation in parched lands 5. Conclusions and ways forward - Conclusions - ways forward ER -