Where NREGA is a failure (Mahim Pratap Singh, The Hindu, 6 September 2009)
Rejigging NREGA, the wrong way (Brinda Karat, The Indian Express, 3 September 2009)
They don't see a drought (Richard Mahapatra, The Financial Express, 17 August 2009)
Entitlements under NREGA violated (Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta, Frontline, Volume 26; Issue 16; August 01-14 2009)
Dalits, the Poor and the NREGA (Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy, The Hindu, 27 August 2009)
Draft Bibliography on NREGA [27 August]
Find the side effects (Ila Patnaik, Indian Express, 10 August 2009)
Taking Goals of NREGA-I forward (Mihir Shah, The Hindu, 14 August 2009)
The Unfinished Agenda (Udit Misra, Forbes India, 20 July 2009)
NREGA is a Promise Half-kept (Shankar Raghuraman, The Times of India, 12 July 2009)
Bharat at Work (Sukumar Mahato, The Times of India, 12 July 2009)
Act fair, Give Rural Workers their Due (Jean Drèze, The Times of India, 12 July 2009)
Multiplier accelerator synergy in NREGA (Mihir Shah, The Hindu, 30 April 2009)
The Wages of Protest (Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey, The Hindu, 5 April 2009)

NREGA: A People's Act, A Revolutionary Step and a Great Hope (31 March, 2009)
Operational Framework of NREGA needs overhaul (Jean Drèze, The Times of India, 30 March 2009)
NREGS: A Farce at Latehar (Pradeep Bhargava, India Together, 24 March 2009)
Broken Promises (Ashish Ranjan, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 10, 14 March 2009)
How safe are NREGS wage payments through banks and post offices? (Pradeep Baisakh, Infochange News and Features, February 2009)
Countering the Meltdown: Urban Employment Guarantee (Transparency Review, Volume II No. 1, January-February 2009)
Lok Adalat or Joke Adalat? (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, The Hindu, 22 February 2009)

Work in Progress (Jean Drèze and Christian Oldiges, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 4), 14-27 February 2008)
Why the NREGA should not rely on banks (Anirban Kar, Business Standard, 02 February 2008)
The Battle for Employment Guarantee (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
Alternative to Migration (Kartika Bhatia and Ashish Ranjan, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
What Works Against Women (Reetika Khera and Nandini Nayak, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
Banned but still there (Jean Drèze and Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
All is not well with the Wells (Kamayani Swami, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
Accounts of Corruption (Anish Vanaik, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
Pati Experience (Reetika Khera, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
Rajasthan way ahead (Reetika Khera and Anish Vanaik, Frontline(Volume 26 - Issue 1), 3-16 January 2008)
A Scene from the South (Karuna Muthiah, Frontline Volume 26 - Issue 1, 3-16 January 2008) [12 January]
From Accounts to Accountability (Jean Drèze a Reetika Khera, 6 December 2008)
Poverty, Migration and National Employment Guarantee Scheme (Sachin Kumar Jain, 2008)
Employment Guarantee and Women's Empowerment in Rural India (Navjyoti Jandu, October 2008)
NREGA: Andhra Pradesh shows the way (Mihir Shah & Prametheah Ambasta, The Hindu, 8 September 2008)
Songs of Hope (Nandini Nayak, The Hindu, 14 September 2008) [30 November]
Poverty, Migration and National Employment Guarantee Scheme (Sachin Kumar Jain, 2008)
Q&A: 'Public action powerful guarantee for social security' (Amrith Lal, The Times of India, 29 August 2008)
Empowerment Guarantee Act (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 August 2008)

NREGA and the death of Tapas Soren (Anish Vanaik, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 July 2008)
M.P. Government's tall claims on jobs scheme challenged (Staff Correspondent, The Hindu, 19 July, 2008)
Employment Scheme checking Migration (Special Correspondent, The Hindu, 20 July, 2008)
NREGA: ship without rudder? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 19 July, 2008)
NREGA: A Fine Balance (P. Sainath, India Together, 13 July, 2008)
More is not enough (Sebastian PT, Outlook Business, 28 June 2008)
Attacking the right to ask (Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Indian Express, 14 June 2008)

An Ecological Act: A Backgrounder to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA) (2 June 2008)
NREGA: The way ahead (Centre for Science and Environment) [2 June, 2008)
From the Bottom Up (Yogi Aggarwal, Business India, 18 May 2008)
India's Rural Employment Scheme (The Economist (Print Edition), 24 April 2008)
Not much of a guarantee (Kaushik Basu, The Hindustan Times, 12 April 2008)
India's jobs plan goes nationwide (Mian Ridge, Christian Science Monitor, 8 April 2008)
Falling through the cracks (Kiran Bhatty, The Hindu, 16 March, 2008)
Governance reform key to NREGA success (Mihir Shah, The Hindu, 14 March 2008)
Nothing Ventured, Nothing learnt (C. P. Bhambhri, india-seminar.com, March 2008)
Employment Guarantee, Women's Work and Child Care (Sudha Narayanan, 1 March 2008)
In Orissa, NREGA is still a ray of hope (Pradeep Baisakh, India Together, 2 February 2008)
Two years of NREGA: The Road Ahead (Pramathesh Ambasta, P S Vijay Shankar and Mihir Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, 23 February 2008)
Corruption guaranteed (Bibhuti Pati, Tehelka.com, 8 February 2008)
Lifeline for the rural poor (Hindu, 25 January 2008)
My Budget Wish! (Shivnath Thukral, NDTV Profit, 24 January 2008) 

Employment guarantee: beyond propaganda (Jean Drèze, Hindu, 11 January 2008) 

Triumph of transparency (Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar, Hindu, 6 January 2008) 

Move beyond spadework (S. B. Misra, Hindustan Times, 2 January 2008)

Employment Guarantee: Progress so Far (Lalit Mathur, Economic and Political Weekly, 29 December 2007) 

A happy tale from two states (Yamini Aiyar, Op-ed, Indian Express, 27 December 2007) 

Social Audits in Andhra Pradesh: A Process of Evolution (Karuna Vakati Aakella, Sowmya Kidambi, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 November 2007) 

NREGA: Dismantling the Contractor Raj (Jean Drèze, Hindu, 20 November 2007) 

Failure of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra (Chhaya Datar, Economic and Political Weekly, 42:34, 25-31 August 2007) 

The Hundred Days Basket (Nirmala Lakshman, Hindu, 14 August 2007) 

State Government considering creches on NREGA worksites (Hindu, 5 August 2007)
Social audit of job guarantee scheme (Hindu, 24 July 2007)
Employment guarantee: unfinished agenda (Jean Drèze and Siddhartha Lal, Hindu, 13 July 2007) 

Villupuram: Long Road to Employment Guarantee (Jean Drèze and Sowmya Kidambi, July 2007)

Villupuram: NREGA off the Beaten Track (NREGA Watch Tamil Nadu, July 2007)

Commendable act (Jean Drèze and Christian Oldiges, Frontline 24:14, July 2007) 

Future in a job card (Pamela Philipose, Indian Express, 28 June 2007) 

New hope for NREGA from Chhattisgarh (Avijit Ghosh, Times of India, 25 June 2007) 

Staff shortage, delayed wages under NREGA in Ranchi (Aditi Nigam, Financial Express, 25 June 2007) 

Sambhavnayen apar magar samasyaon ka ambar [Hindi] (Bhanwar Meghwanshi, People's News Network)
Pay Rs 2 for job guarantee (Financial Express, 5 June 2007)
Self defeating game (Telegraph, 5 June 2007)
Employment scheme takes its toll on farming (Khaleej Times, 1 June 2007)
Building Blocks (Hindustan Times, 30 May 2007)
There's a bit of sociology in rural jobs (Am Jigeesh, Financial Express, 29 May 2007) 

ATM-type facility for NREGP beneficiaries (The Hindu, 29 May 2007)
They don't trust private jobs anymore (Mukesh Ranjan, Financial Express, 28 May 2007) 

Barwani gets India's first wages for the jobless (Varun Jaitley, Financial Express, 26 May 2007) 

Koda passes job plan buck to Munda (Telegraph, 25 May 2007)
Graft slur on postmaster (Telegraph, 24 May 2007)
In Bilaspur, they've started dreaming again (Financial Express, 24 May 2007)
Corruption clouds UPA job scheme (The Indian Express, 23 May 2007)
Rural job study reveals sad story (Telegraph, 22 May 2007)
NREGP: no place for single women (P. Sainath, Hindu, 22 May 2007) 

ATM's there, but where has the money gone? (Shauvik Ghosh, Financial Express, 21 May 2007) 

NREGA audit gets underway in Jharkhand (Financial Express, 19 May 2007)
Social audit of job guarantee scheme (Hindu, 15 May 2007)
An Infusion Of Hope From Job Guarantee (Teresa Rehman,Tehelka, 12 May 2007) 

Call It A National Waste (Saikat Datta, Outlook, 23 April 2007) 

NREGA in Uttar Pradesh (Saikat Datta and Anuradha Raman, April 2007)
A Ten Foot Trench, Rs 14.50 (Saikat Datta, Anuradha Raman and Arindam Mukherjee, Outlook, 9 April 2007)

Too Late, Too Little (John Mary, Outlook, 9 April 2007) 

A Rural Dream? (Madhavi Tata, Outlook, 9 April 2007) 

Staff crisis hits NREGS at Dangs (Mahesh Langa, Indian Express, 9 . April 2007) 

Central scheme reaches right hands in Wayanad (NewIndPress.com, 27 March 2007) [Subscription only]
Women to benefit more from NREGP (NewIndPress.com, 27 March 2007) [Subscription only]
Social audits should be given to individuals, not NGOs (Express News Service, 26 March 2007)
NREGP - a pedestal for growth in rural India (MyIRIS, 25 March 2007)
`Revise project guidelines' (Hindu, 21 March 2007)
Now, NREGP wages through post offices, banks (Hindu, 14 March 2007)
AIDWA seeks justice in payment of minimum wages (Hindu, 13 March 2007)
More spending on education and health (Economist, 6 March 2007) [Subscription only]
Dangs gets second highest fund but utilises the least (Mahesh Langa Indian Express Ahmedabad Newsline, 3 March 2007) 

Accountable & powerless (Central Chronicle, 5 February 2007)
Challenging corruption with social audits (Karuna Vakati Aakella and Sowmya Kidambi, Economic and Political Weekly, February 2007) 

Among victims are Bihar labourers who had job guarantee cards but no job (Jai Prakash Yadav Indian Express, 9 January 2007) 

Hundred percent muster roll verification for NREGA works (IndLaw News 8 January 2007)

 

Pamela Philipose, Getting on with the jobs (Indian Express, 30 December 2006)

Subodh Ghildiyal Rural jobs scheme may get an expansion (Times of India, 22 December 2006)

Department of Information and Public Relations, Himachal Pradesh Himachal planing to implement National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to complete state (myHimachal, 21 December 2006)

Tarannum Manjul No room for disabled in rural employment scheme (Indian Express, 20 December 2006)

Pawan Bali No guarantee under NREG scheme (CNN-IBN, 17 December 2006)

Sutirtho Patranobis UPA flagship scheme attracts attention (Hindustan Times, 17 December 2006)

Kiran Bhatty Job Guarantee Plan Upsets Rural Pecking Order (Development-India, 15 December 2006)

Prakash Louis NREGA Implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Bihar (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)

Arun Jacob and Richard Verghese NREGA Implementation - I: Reasonable beginning in Palakkad, Kerala (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)

Palak Nandi Working Model: EGA in Dungarpur (Sunday Express, 5 November 2006)

Meera Vishvanathan, An act that works (Times of India, 18 October 2007)

Waiting for job card, Dalit family die of hunger in India

(Indian Express, 13 October 2007)

Etmad Khan, Poverty guaranteed (Tehelka, 7 October 2007)

Jasvir Singh Problem of wages (Times of India, 3 October 2006)

Tanushree Sood NREGA: Challenges in implementation

Editorial First lessons: Focus on NREG programme in poorer states (Financial Express, 30 September 2006)

Sonu Jain Gaps in implementation stifling NREGA success: Review panel (Indian Express, 28 September 2006)

Rajiv Shah Report slams state record on rural jobs (Times of India, 15 September 2006)

Express News Service On EGS probe, State gets babus' rap (Indian Express, 12 September 2006)

Jean Drèze Employment Guarantee Inaction (Hindu, 12 September 2006) [pdf]

Sreelatha Menon Plugging It (Business Standard, 16 August 2006) [Subscription only]

UP a laggard in rural job plan

(Times of India, 9 August 2006)

Sreelatha Menon Village `dole` takes baby steps amid apathy, graft (Business Standard/Rediff, 7 August 2006)

Gayatri Sahgal A Survey of Reality

Brinda Karat (2006) Status of NREGA in Sivaganga district, Tamil Nadu (Letter to Shri P. Chidambaram, July 2006)
Bela Bhatia and Jean Drèze Employment Guarantee on the Ground: Insights from Jharkhand (Economic and Political Weekly, July 22, 2006)

Reetika Khera Employment guarantee and migration (17 June 2006)

Jayati Ghosh The Children of Migrant Workers (3 June 2006)

PRIA Reports from National Consultation on NREGA (1 June 2006)

Nirmala Lakshman Employment guarantee - signs of transformation (Hindu, 11 May 2006)

Sowmya Kerbart Sivakumar Walking with a purpose (Frontline 23:9, May 06-19)

Kiran Bhatty Rural Job Guarantee Scheme Passes Muster (Inter Press Service News Agency, May 3)

Transparency, Accountability Using the People's Right to Information for Proper Implementation of the NREGA

(MKSS Rajasthan)

Sandipan Sharma Centre planning EGA wage cut, say activists on ground (Indian Express, April 28)

Mohammed Iqbal Public vigilance helps to minimise corruption in rural employment guarantee scheme (Hindu, April 28)

Avijit Ghosh Job scheme gets feminised in south Rajasthan (Times of India, April 26)

Krishnamurty, J Employment Guarantee and Crisis Response (Economic and Political Weekly, 4 March 2006)

Bihar budget - a drop in the ocean: Rabri

(Times of India, 1 March 2006)

Bisht, Arvind Singh Rural employment: No guarantee yet (Times of India, 19 February 2006)

Zora, Parwani and Kranti Kumara Band-aid for a social calamity (World Socialist Website, 14 February 2006)

Anand, Panini Bharat mein Rozgar Guarantee Yojana laagu (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)

Anand, Panini 200 zillon mein rozgar guarantee yojana (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)

Anand, Panini Kya hain yojana se judi ashaein (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)

Anand, Panini Rozgar yojana nahi, rozgar kanoon (BBC Hindi, 2 February 2006)

Sastry, Trilochan An autonomous NREG Agency needed (India Together, 29 January 2006)

Sule, Surekha Gearing villages up for entitlements (India Together, 12 January 2006)

Nanavaty, Reema and Divya Pandya (SEWA) National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme: SEWA'S Perception and Implications (a Perspective Note) 

Prakash Louis (2006) NREGA Implementation - II: Birth Pangs in Bihar (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
Institute for Human Development (2006) A study of the NREGA in Bihar
Arun Jacob and Richard Verghese (2006) NREGA Implementation - I: Reasonable beginning in Palakkad, Kerala (Economic and Political Weekly, 2 December 2006)
Survey to monitor implementation of the NREGA: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh (Presentation by Jayati Ghosh to Ministry of Rural Development on a survey by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, 30 August 2006) [Powerpoint]
Fact Finding Report on the Status of implementation of scheme under NREGA in Bengabad Block of Giridih District, Jharkhand (Mazdoor Kisan Samiti & Nari Shakti Sangathan, Jharkhand, September 2006)
Fact Finding Report on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Tamil Nadu (TN-FORCES, 8 September 2006)
All India Agrarian Labourers' Association (AIALA), 2006 Employment Guarantee Act: Tall Claims and Ground Realities; Soaring Prices, Crumbling Public Distribution System, and the UPA Government (Report of a public hearing, 17 August 06, Jantar Mantar, New Delhi)
Jan Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS) (2006) Struggles to ensure employment and minimum wages in Barwani [ZIP]
SRIJAN (2006) Three-day padyatra by SRIJAN to create awareness on NREGA
Participatory Research and Action (PRIA) (2006) Implementation of NREGA - Experience so far [ZIP]
Report of conference on NREGA in Bhawanipatna, Orissa
Report of social audit at Budiar, Orissa
Implementation of NREGA in Bhawanipatna block of Kalahandi
Anil Varghese, Rajkumar, Spurthi Reddy (2006): Worksite survey of projects under national food for work programme in District : Dungarpur Block : Bichchiwada
Sachin Jain (2006) Poverty, migration & national rural employment guarantee scheme a case study on Sahariya primitive tribal group in Madhya Pradesh (June 2006)
Janpath and Sabar Ekta Manch (2006) Status Report on Implementation of NREGA in Gujarat (May 2006)
Tribal migration: whither employment guarantee?
Preliminary report of a multi-district survey on EGA
Asha (2006), Victory for labourers on May Day (1 May 2006)

Jain, Sonu Rich, poor, all states are in job guarantee net (Indian Express, 8 December 2005)

Integrating NREGP with the market

(Business Line, 29 November 2005)

Jain, Sunil Problems in panchayati paradise (Business Standard, 28 November 2005)

Tiwary, Deepti Right to Food (Tehelka, 5 November 2005)

Eyal, Nadav Things we can learn from India (Maariv, 31 October 2005)

Sen, Amiti PMO to keep tabs on key programmes (Financial Express, 25 October 2005)

Olson, Maxine Work for pro-poor growth (Economic Times, 20 October 2005)

Chatterjee, Manini Spoils of the Soil (Indian Express, 16 October 2005)

Karat, Brinda Towards Implementing the Rural Employment Guarantee Act (People's Democracy, 16 October 2005)

Bagchee, Aruna Political and Administrative Realities of the EGS (Economic and Political Weekly, 15 October 2005)

Kannan, K. P. Linking Guarantee to Human Development (Economic and Political Weekly, 15 October 2005)

Gopal, K. S. Is the Euphoria Justified? (Economic and Politica. Weekly, 15 October 2005)

Chandra Mohan, N. Jobbing through to the elections (Sify Online, 5 October 2005)

Menon, A. V. B. A Note on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Varada Rajan, W. R. Employment guarantee passed, what next? (The Working Class, September 2005)

Sridhar, V. Bias in the criticism (Frontline, September 23)

Sridhar, V. Empowering the rural poor (Frontline, September 23)

Vardarajan, Siddharth Why India's poor need an employment guarantee (Interview for ABC TV, September 15)

Cherian, Thomas Adding jobs, but at what cost? (International Herald Tribune, September 14)

Chary, Venkat R. REGS: Grossly Miscalculated? (Hindu Businessline, September 9)

Venu, M. K. Leading reform is a two-way street (Economic Times, September 6)

Bhalla, Surjit Singh Job scheme: A means to siphon off money (Rediff, September 5)

Shukla, Rajeev Time for change (Indian Express, September 2)

Ganapathy, Nirmala Rural employment bill: World is watching India (Indian Express, September 1)

Morris, Sebastian Employment guarantee scheme is a still-born child; try land reforms (Financial Express, August 30)

Philipose, Pamela Employment Guarantee Shield (Indian Express, August 29)

Singh, Tavleen Marxists begin to see the light, not Sonia (Indian Express, August 28)

Bahuguna, Nitin Jugran A guarantee to work? (Hindu, August 29)

Gupta, Smita A very significant legislation: Parliament votes for Rural Employment Guarantee (People's Democracy, August 28)

People's Victory; Safeguard It (People's Democracy, August 28)

Gaiha, Raghav From workfare to poverty alleviation (Business Standard, August 27)

Jha, Prem Shankar A surrender to populism (Domain-B, August 26)

Giveaway governance (Indian Express, August 25)

Ganguli, Amulya Turn left for disaster (Asian Age, August 25)

Chopra, Anuj India moves to spread wealth (Christian Science Monitor, August 25)

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu Sense and Consensus (Indian Express, August 24)

Jalan, Bimal Wanted: A Barefoot Minister (Indian Express, August 24)

LS passes Employment Guarantee Bill (Hindu Business Line, August 24)

Alagh, Y. K. A scheme in search of a plan (Indian Express, August 24)

Joshi, Sharad National Employment Guarantee Scheme Well-intentioned, but poorly designed (Hindu Business Line, August 24)

Lok Sabha passes Rural Employment Bill (Hindustan Times, August 24)

LS passes Employment Guarantee Bill (Sify, August 24)
Govt rejects BJP move on jobs Bill (Business Standard, August 23)
Vardarajan, Sidharth Minimum wages must be treated as sacrosant (Hindu, August 23)
Anand, Panini Rozgar Guarantee vidheyak paarit (BBC Hindi, August 23)
All about India's rural job guarantee bill (Rediff, August 22)
Pie in the sky? (Economic Times, August 22)
Guarantee this (Indian Express, August 20)
Ninan, T N Fools rush in (Business Standard, August 20)
Ramachandran, Nira Taking the Bill to the people (Indian Express, August 20)
Answer the critics (Financial Express, August 20)
Patnaik, Ila Will it reduce poverty or fill corrupt pockets? A 7-item reality check (Indian Express, August 19)
UPA plays its CMP trump card: job Bill (Indian Express, August 19)
Anand, Panini Rozgar Guarantee vidheyka lok sabha mein pesh (BBC Hindi, August 18)
Sonia defends Employment Guarantee Bill (NDTV, August 18)
Pulin Nayak Changing the face of rural India (Business Standard, August 18)
Amendments to jobs Bill criticised (Hindu, August 18)
Left leaves imprint on job bill (Indian Express, August 18)
Chatterjee, Mohua and Subodh Ghildiyal Employment Guarantee Bill gets big boost (Times of India, August 18)
Mandar, Harsh The Battle Against Hunger (Indian express, August 18)
Employment Guarantee Bill to be tabled tomorrow (NDTV, August 17)
Govt, Left sort out differences over employment scheme (Hindu, August 17)
Farooqui, Mahmood Redeeming a pledge (Indian Express, August 17)
EGS muster roll will now be a public document (Indian Express, August 17)
Job guarantee Bill to be presented today (Financial Express, August 17)
Aarthi Ramachandran Jobs guarantee Bill may be tabled today (Business Standard, August 17)
Left parties find difficulties in Employment Guarantee Bill (Malayali Manorama, August 16)

Roy, Aruna and Nikhil Dey Guaranteeing action for employment (Hindu, August 15)

Mehta, Vinod Shining Shame (scroll down for article) (Outlook, August 15)

Gupta, Smita Parliament Panel Slams Employment Bill (People's Democracy, August 14)

Dasgupta, Swapan Rename REGA as Corruption Guarantee Scheme (Pioneer, August 14)

Drèze, Jean Time to Clean Up (Times of India, August 13)

Drèze, Jean Employment Guarantee and its Discontents (published as "Totally Off Target" in Times of India, August 12)

Kundu, Amitabh and Niranjan Sarangi Issues of Urban Exclusion (Economic and Political Weekly, August 13)

A Vaidyanathan Need for involvement of States (Economic and Political Weekly, August 13)

Jain, L. C. Putting Panchayats in charge (Economic and Political Weekly, August 13)
Kapoor, Ravi Shanker A Recipe for Disaster (Indian Express, August 12)
Jha, Prem Shankar Deliver Us From the Abyss (Outlook, August 12)
Mohan, N. Chandra Loot for Work Programme? (Outlook, August 11)
Can India support the rural employment plan? (Times of India, August 10)
Solapur's sieve (Indian Express, August 9)
Keskar, Prasanna Kumar Lesson for Delhi? In model state, 9-cr job scheme fraud (Indian Express, August 8)
Times of India Editorial, Down to Earth (Times of India, August 8)
Dogra, Bharat Jobs and Options (Times of India, August 8)
Chakraverti, Sauvik Employment Guarantee a Hoax (Indian Express, August 6)
Chenoy, Kamal Mitra No Capital without Labour (Indian Express, August 6)
EPW Editorial, Employment Guarantee: Setting Legislation Right (EPW, August 6)
Patnaik, Utsa It is time for Kumbhakarna to wake up (Hindu, August 5)
Singh, Mamta Jobs scheme exposed (Business Standard, August 3)
Compounding the folly (Financial Express, July 30)
Moily, Veerappa Be creative on EGS aim (Financial Express, July 30)
Standing Committee for making employment guarantee "universal" (Yahoo News, July 27)
Bidwai, Praful Empowering the poor: for a Job Guarantee Act
Bidwai, Praful Creating a right to work
Datta, Saikat A Crying Shame (Outlook)
Anand, P.nini Chhattisgarh mein rozgar yatra par lathicharge (BBC Hindi, June 5)
Sajha Manch Freedom to Work (Discussion paper)
SEWA, May Day Demand: Rural Employment Guarantee Act (We, the Self Employed, May 2005)
Narain, Sunita, Fixing the employment Bill (Business Standard, May 24, 2005)
Anand, Panini Rozgar guarantee kanoon ko lekar yatra shuru (BBC Hindi, May 13)
Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal, Debraj Ray, and E. Somanathan, I. Defence of the Employment Guarantee Act (April 2005)
Dogra, Bharat, Rural Wage Employment Schemes: Rhetoric and Reality (April 2005)
Birhman, Ravi, Employment Guarantee: It Can Be Guaranteed (Businessworld, April 18 2005)
Backtracking on Employment Guarantee (EPW, March 2005)
Gupta, Smita, National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: Elusive Guarantee, Little Employment (Budget Track, February 2005)
Mohanty, Siba Sankar, National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: Issues and Concerns (Budget Track, February 2005)
Vaidyanathan, A., Panchayats and Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, February 15, 2005)
Joshi, Anuradha, For Effective Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, February 8, 2005)
Singh, Tavleen, Why we are a Poor Rich Country (The Indian Express, February 7, 2005)
Jha, Madan M., EGS as Investment, not Welfare (The Indian Express, February 3, 2005)
Bhaduri, Amit, Do We Want the Poor to be Employed? (The Telegraph, February 2, 2005.
Sarkar, Abhirup, Employment Schemes Must Aim at Enduring Economic Benefits (The Telegraph, February 1, 2005)
Chamaraj, Kathyayini, Time to Fulfil Pledges of the Past (Humanscape, January 2005)
Economist, The, India's Poor Law (January 29, 2005) [reprinted in The Economic Times on February 8, 2005]
Amit Bhaduri First priority - Guaranteeing employment and the right to information (EPW, January 22, 2005)
Dhavan, Rajeev, The Case for Employment Guarantee (The Hindu, January 21, 2005)
Mulji, Sudhir, Employment Guarantee Scheme (Business Standard, January 20, 2005)
Virmani, Arvind, EGS as a Means to Greater Ends (The Financial Express, January 20, 2005)
Bhalla, Surjit S., Ten Lies and an Act: III (Business Standard, January 8, 2005)
Hasan, Zoya, EGA: Needed, a Govt Guarantee Act (The Indian Express, January 6, 2005)
Patnaik, Prabhat, Need for a Universal EGS (The Hindu, January 5, 2005)
Roy, Bunker, 100 Days That Will Change India (The Indian Express, January 5, 2005)
Ear to the Ground (The Indian Express, January 4, 2005)
Rao, Bhanoji, NREG Bill: Fine Tuning Will Make it Work Better (Business Line, January 4, 2005)
Srinivasan, T.N., Guaranteeing Employment: A Palliative? (The Hindu, January 3, 2005)
Ghosh, Jayati, Back to Bashing Subsidies (People's Democracy, January 2, 2005)
Khera, Reetika and Aruna Roy, Not Everybody Loves a Good Drought (The Hindu, January 2, 2005)
Patnaik, Ila, Here, Food for Work Does Mean Food & Work (The Indian Express, January 2, 2005) .
Economist, The, Guaranteed to Disappoint: Employing the Indian Poor (January 1, 2005) [reprinted in The Economic Times on January 5, 2005]

Pradeep Bhargava and Manju Balana (2005) Unemployment during lean season: Benevolence of the state

Adiyog (2004) Garibi ki kilaf guarantee kanoon (hindi) 

Gupta, Smita, Political Will a Prerequisite for Employment Guarantee: Report on SAHMAT Convention (Macroscan, December 2004)

Gupta, Smita, Employment Guarantee: An Act to Salvage Democracy (Macroscan, December 2004)

Gupta, Smita, Employment Guarantee Act as Smokescreen: Targetting and Wage Flexibility by the Backdoor (2004)

Ghosh, Jayati, How to pay for the Employment Guarantee (Macroscan, December 2004)

Ghosh, Jayati, The Economic Case for Employment Guarantee (Macroscan, December 2004)

Patnaik, Prabhat, A Note on the Resources Needed for an Employment Guarantee Scheme (Macroscan, December 2004)

Drèze, Jean, Unemployment Guarantee Bill (The Hindu, December 31, 2004)

Bhalla, Surjit S., Ten Lies and an Act: II (Business Standard, December 30, 2004)

Long,Simon Guaranteed to disappoint (Economist, December 29, 2004)

Acharya, Shankar, Bad Ideas are Winning! (Business Standard, December 28, 2004)

Bhaduri, Amit, Guaranteeing Employment (The Hindu, December 27, 2004)

Gupta, Smita, National Employment Guarantee Bill 2004: UPA's Failed Promise (People's Democracy, December 26, 2004)

Agarwal, Siddhartha and Ruchira Saha, Work is Worship (The Indian Express, December 25, 2004) [also published as Engaging Rural India (Financial Express, December 25, 2004)]

Bhalla, Surjit S., Ten Lies and an Act: I (Business Standard, December 25, 2004)

Alexander, P.C., Guaranteeing Employment (The Asian Age, December 23, 2004)

Bidwai, Praful, UPA Betrays its Biggest Promise (The Shillong Times, December 23, 2004)

Chandra Mohan, N., Guaranteeing Work in India's Countryside (The Financial Express, December 23, 2004)

EGS on Govt Face?

(The Statesman, December 22, 2004)

The Wrongs of a Right

(Business Standard, December 22, 2004)

Gaiha, Raghav, No 100 per cent Guarantee (The Indian Express, December 20, 2004)

Implementation, the Key

(The Economic Times, December 20, 2004)

Gokarn, Subir, Employer of the Last Resort (Business Standard, December 20, 2004)

Mehrotra, Santosh, Can India Really Do Without EGS? (The Economic Times, December 20, 2004)

Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria, Poverty Reduction by Helicopter (The Times of India, December 19, 2004)

Gupta, Smita, Promises to keep (Frontline, December 18, 2004)

Gupta, Smita, One Hundred Days of Solitude (Tehelka, December 18, 2004)

Ninan, T.N., Guaranteeing Work (Business Standard, December 18, 2004)

Srinivasa-Raghavan, T.C.A., Can the State Really Help the Poor? (Business Standard, December 18, 2004)

Drèze, Jean, Why Should Anyone be Afraid of the Employment Guarantee Act? (The Financial Express, December 17, 2004)

Jain, L.C., Work is the Crux, so is Self-Governance (The Financial Express, December 17, 2004)

Ramanathan, Ramesh, Time to Reflect on the Rural Jobs Bill? (The Financial Express, December 17, 2004)

Srinivasa-Raghavan, T.C.A., Why Dr ze, Roy & co. Should Worry (Business Standard, December 17, 2004)

Lip Service -- Don't Gut the Employment Guarantee Act

(The Statesman, December 15, 2004)

Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Pranab Bardhan, Food for Thought (The Hindustan Times, December 15, 2004)

Rao, Jaithirth, Forget Efficiency. Let's Do It (The Indian Express, December 15, 2004)

Singhvi, Abhishek, Just the Job (The Hindustan Times, December 15, 2004)

Sud, Surinder, A Watershed for Development (Business Standard, December 14, 2004)

Rise of Civil Society

(Business Standard, December 13, 2004)

Venkitaramanan, S., Job Schemes Must Effect Grassroots Changes (Business Line, December 13, 2004)

Gupta, Smita, Resist Dilution Of Employment Guarantee (People's Democracy, December 12, 2004)

Ahuja, Rajeev, Time to Act Upon an Old Promise (The Indian Express, December 11, 2004)

Bhalla, Surjit S., Corruption with a Human Face (Business Standard, December 11, 2004)

Shah, Mihir, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Historic Opportunity (Economic & Political Weekly, December 11, 2004)

Power without Responsibility

(The Financial Express, December 10, 2004)

Karat, Brinda, No Jobs Ahead: Dilutions in Employment Law Unacceptable (The Times of India, December 10, 2004)

Chamraj, Kathyayini, Empowering rural masses (Deccan Herald, Dec 9, 2004)

Patnaik, Ila, Sincere about Employment Guarantee? Give up Subsidies You Milk (The Indian Express, December 9, 2004)

Narayan, S., Convenience of Employment Guarantees (The Financial Express, December 8, 2004)

Acharya, Shankar, Guaranteeing Jobs or a Fiscal Crisis? (Business Standard, November 30, 2004)

Hirway, Indira, Providing Employment Guarantee in India: some critical issues (Economic and Political Weekly, November 27, 2004)

Raja, D., Employment is a Right (The Financial Express, November 24, 2004)

State Resistance

(The Financial Express, November 23, 2004)

Drèze, Jean, Employment as a Social Responsibility (The Hindu, November 22, 2004)

Work for the Poor

(Economic & Political Weekly, November 20, 2004)

Food for Work: PM Must Ensure its Effective Monitoring

(The Tribune, November 16, 2004)

Jain, Sachin, Politics of EGA (2004)

Jain, Sunil, Making an Ass of U and Me (Business Standard, October 25, 2004)

Debroy, Bibek, The Rs. 208,000 crore Puzzle (The Indian Express, October 23, 2004)

Debroy, Bibek, Jobs, Not the Government's Job (The Indian Express, October 13, 2004)

Reddy, Vijayashankar and Rammanohar, Making employment guarantee a reality (2004)

Reddy, C. Rammanohar and P. Vijayshankar, Making Employment Guarantee A Reality (Seminar, No. 541, September 2004)

Shah, Mihir, A Workable Right to Employment (The Hindu, August 24, 2004)

Chamaraj, Kathyayini, People as Puppets (The Hindu, August 22, 2004)

Bose, Sukanya, Employment Guarantee: A Distant Dream (Macroscan, July 2004)

Ghosh, Jayati, Rural Employment as Policy Priority (Frontline, July 16, 2004)

Chandrashekhar, C. P. and Jayati Ghosh, How Feasible is the Employment Guarantee (Business Line, June 22, 2004)

Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria, An Expensive Face-Lift? (The Times of India, May 30, 2004)

Krishnaraj, Maithreyi; Divya Pandey, Aruna Kanchi Does EGS Require Restructuring for Poverty Alleviation and Gender Equality?: Concept, Design and Delivery System (Economic and Political Weekly, 17 April, 2004)

Azra Khan (2004) Corruption in food for work scheme in Mau, UP

Sachin Jain (2003) Dalit Women's struggle for minimum wages, Dhar District M.P.

Seema and Prakash (2003) Dalit women win

V B Rawat (2003) Where has the rice gone from FFW programme: Report from Mau district, U.P.