MGNREGA snatched our livelihoods: villagers

Not so long ago, before the promise of guaranteed employment through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) reached the doorsteps of his village in Eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi, Ram Saran was employed as a “permanent” staff in a carpet manufacturing unit. Today, he only has bitter words for the UPA-government’s flagship programme and blames it for “snatching” his livelihood.

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