Increased outlays for NREGP will increase corruption
The road to hell is almost always paved with good and even noble intentions. One couldn’t but help wonder about this truism after reading the likes of Aruna Roy and many other well meaning activists passionately defend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). All of them – barring some die -hard jholawallas – agreed that there were serious flaws in implementation of the scheme that had resulted in most of the money not reaching intended beneficiaries. In some districts, just 3% of the targets were achieved as corrupt contractors, bureaucrats and politicians made merry at the expense of the poor unemployed people of rural India. Most activists like Roy do admit that there is some truth to the allegations made in the CAG report that too much of the funds meant for NREGP have been siphoned away. And yet, they insist that the NREGP must now be implemented in every district of the country (Indeed, the implementation has already started). Their solution: plug the loopholes that marked the faulty implementation of the scheme as witnessed in the last few years.
If you look at analogies, it would go something like this: murders and rapes keep happening with alarming frequency in a neighbourhood, despite the presence of police personnel. If activists were part of the solution to this crime wave, they would advocate that the murderers & rapists will soon stop committing crimes! How different are the corrupt Indian contractors, bureaucrats & politicians from murderers & rapists?
The road to hell is almost always paved with good and even noble intentions. One couldn’t but help wonder about this truism after reading the likes of Aruna Roy and many other well meaning activists passionately defend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). All of them – barring some die -hard jholawallas – agreed that there were serious flaws in implementation of the scheme that had resulted in most of the money not reaching intended beneficiaries. In some districts, just 3% of the targets were achieved as corrupt contractors, bureaucrats and politicians made merry at the expense of the poor unemployed people of rural India. Most activists like Roy do admit that there is some truth to the allegations made in the CAG report that too much of the funds meant for NREGP have been siphoned away. And yet, they insist that the NREGP must now be implemented in every district of the country (Indeed, the implementation has already started). Their solution: plug the loopholes that marked the faulty implementation of the scheme as witnessed in the last few years.
If you look at analogies, it would go something like this: murders and rapes keep happening with alarming frequency in a neighbourhood, despite the presence of police personnel. If activists were part of the solution to this crime wave, they would advocate that the murderers & rapists will soon stop committing crimes! How different are the corrupt Indian contractors, bureaucrats & politicians from murderers & rapists?
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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