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Krushna Ranaware

What Andamans can teach the rest of India: How best to use NREGA

In a year when drought has ravaged the mainland, the islands offer vital lessons on how to use the jobs scheme to create sustainable livelihoods.

Sudha Narayanan
,
Krushna Ranaware
&
I Balu
· May 06, 2016 · 10:30 am
Photos: MNREGA hasn’t just generated jobs – it has created forests, ponds, wells and changed lives

Thanks to the law, workers have built roads where there were none, replaced scrublands with forests, levelled lands and made them cultivable.

Krushna Ranaware
· Jul 08, 2015 · 03:30 pm