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Dole disguised as jobs

In admitting before the Supreme Court that its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is not an employment-generating programme but a social security net for the rural poor, the UPA Government has confirmed what critics have all along maintained — that the MNREGS is essentially a wasteful expenditure at the Congress’s behest and a hence a drain on the public exchequer. Indeed, it is fit to be scrapped. 

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