Are we creating a country on dole?

January 24, 2012 15:28

On the one hand, we have created a generation of rural workers that's living a charade of employment called NREGA. On the other hand, we are going ahead and telling them that if digging some holes and covering them up is too much work, they needn't bother. They'll get subsidized rice and wheat without having to trouble themselves too much. In other words, we are going to put Bharat on dole, writes Sridharan Ramakrishnan here.

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