MUMBAI: State rural development minister Jayant Patil stunned participants at a national seminar on the agrarian crisis here this week when he admitted that Maharashtra was lagging behind in the implementation of the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) because its "bureaucracy found the transparency clauses in it too much of a bother".
He was speaking at the Kalina campus of the Mumbai University which had organized a two-day national seminar on `MGNREGA and the agrarian crisis' through its Centre for Human Development in the Department of Economics. MGNREGA is the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government's flagship programme and has been credited with helping it return to power in 2009's general election. The main objective of the scheme is to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing not less than 100 days of wage employment in an year to one adult member of every family.
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