Digging Holes; Indian Rural Welfare  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8758 (Nov. 2011), page 40.
Topik: Public Officials; Welfare; Corruption; Geographic Profiles; Rural Areas

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India's flagship welfare scheme guarantees 100 days of paid work a year for any unskilled rural labourer who wants it. India's biggest single welfare project was launched in 2006 and costs over $8 billion a year. Alone, it eats up over 3% of all public spending, and officials say over 50m households last year got some benefit from it. Supporters say it has helped to lift rural wages--on average workers get about 120 rupees ($2.40) a day--which should mean falling poverty. But in many districts, especially poorer ones, huge amounts are stolen or wasted. Too much money ends up in crooked officials' pockets. Jairam Ramesh, who runs India's biggest civilian ministry, in charge of rural development, is still a big supporter of the scheme. But he blames state politicians for ignoring or even colluding in "brazen" theft of central funds by officials of the country's 250,000 panchayats (village administrations), who run it on the ground. Even the scheme's boosters admit to structural flaws.

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