1. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? Poverty has increased More rural unemployed now than ever Schemes to generate employment have failed to retain jobs

2. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? Focus on capital intensive schemes Clinical way of looking at wage schemes Local people had no roles to play

3. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? Natural resource bases like land and forest have shrunk They absorb less jobs than ever Triggers a BoP

4. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? Poverty is ecological in nature NREGA has the right orientation It can be used to create assets that contribute to local livelihoods A change in approach needed

5. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? Backward districts are resource-rich but less governed They hold 60 percent of India’s poor Local bodies need to be empowered Implementation must focus on productive assets

6. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Last chance to fight poverty? NREGA is an effective way to eradicate poverty For this we need to understand the poverty in India Poverty is ecological in nature Thus NREGA needs to be an ecological Act