Righteous rage indeed

The prescribed wage under the rural employment guarantee programme matches the poverty line for a five-member family: Rs 130 in the villages. The National Advisory Council (NAC) wants it to be more; can’t afford it, says the government. So why doesn’t the redoubtable Aruna Roy, who is a member of the NAC, ask Manmohan Singh if he can live on that wage, in the manner that she posed the question to Montek Singh Ahluwalia? If she doesn’t ask the prime minister, because it would be rude and irrelevant, why wasn’t it rude and irrelevant when posed to Mr Ahluwalia?

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