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Opinion - Leader Page Articles Dispirited markets
Measure for measure
Governance reform key to NREGA success Governance reform key to
NREGA success
Mihir Shah Russia strikes back
Corrections and clarifications
The same implementation structure that has failed rural Rising anxieties over
premiership battle
development over decades cannot be deployed for the radically
Narmada Valley rehabilitation
new programme promised by NREGA. work: let right be done
Meghalaya politics
Barely two years on, there is a clamour for scrapping the Employees strike
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The Jihad in Kerala
chorus is led by no less than the Chief Minister of one of India’s Indian hockey
most populous and backward States. We live in a strange
country. We have fanatics who want to put up barricades to Archives
debar “outsiders” from entering our metros. Others suggest Yesterday's Issue
that speaking for the farmer is “the idiocy of urban thinking” Datewise
(Sagarika Ghose, H industan Times, February 15, 2008). They Features:
repeat ad nauseam what Indian planners have been trying for Magazine
the last 50 years — unabated urbanisation and industrialisation Literary Review
as the panacea. Agriculture can continue to be the “bargain Metro Plus
sector,” especially now that the Indian economy grows fast Open Page
even when agriculture stagnates. Education Plus
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Such a view is completely blind to the deepening distress in Business
rural India. A policy tried for 50 long years has not worked. SciTech
Even during the reforms era, over the last 15 years, India has Friday Review
had an unacceptably high proportion of malnourished women Cinema Plus
and children that refuses to come down. Thousands of farmers Young World
have committed suicide, a phenomenon unprecedented in the Property Plus
history of Indian civilisation. Surely, it is time for a change, Quest
time to recognise the centrality of agriculture, which the World
Bank too has recently woken up to. This is not to deny the role
of industrialisation and vibrant metros. But to emphasise the
deep complementarities between industry and agriculture, town
and country. These are not just the narrow input-output ratios
of economists; they are also bonds social, cultural and
ecological that hold a nation together.
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