Truth Vs Hype

The Finance Minister leaves NREGA's budget untouched but the Prime Minister calls it a monument to the UPA's failure. With ground reportage and empirical research, we investigate what this ambiguity means for the flagship job guarantee scheme - is its future safe is it slowly being bled dry? And is the PM's characterisation of NREGA as a corrupt, inefficient, high spending project grounded in facts, or hyperbole?