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US heaps praise on India's NREGA
Lalit K Jha
Washington, Apr 20 (PTI) India's National Rural Employment
Generation Scheme has come in for praise from the US, which
said the key innovation has been "successful" beyond the
expectations of almost everyone and worth emulating.
The Obama Administration, which is keenly awaiting a
briefing on the United Progressive Alliance government's
flagship scheme from Indian Labour Minister Mallikarjun
Kharge, said there are lessons that are transferable to other
countries at low and middle income levels.
Kharge will give an overview of NREGA at the first ever
meet of G-20 labour ministers here convened at the instance of
President Barack Obama. The meeting is beginning on Tuesday.
Top officials from the US Department of Labour, organisers
of the event, said the innovative 100-day rural employment
guarantee scheme has been successful beyond the expectations
of almost every one.
"India has learnt and has refined the strategy. So there
is a great deal of anticipation to hear from Minister Kharge
about these policies, how they have worked, and are there
lessons that are transferable to other countries at low and
middle income levels," Deputy Under Secretary for
International Affairs Sandra Polaski told foreign journalists.
"The employment minister from India, who is attending the
conference, has been asked to speak about that as one of the
key innovations that India has made, a policy which has been
challenging to implement but at the end of the day very
successful. I think successful beyond the expectations
of almost everyone," Polaski told reporters.
Labour and employment ministers from top 20 economies of
the world are scheduled to attend the conference.
Recommendations of the conference would be submitted to
the next G-20 Summit meeting in Toronto later this year.
"This meeting, as you know, comes at a time of tremendous
challenge for workers in the G-20 countries. The prompt
actions of many of our governments last year prevented a true
global depression. The ILO, estimates that 20 million jobs
were saved or created by collective stimulus plans and our
social safety nets in 2009 and 2010," US Labour Secretary
Hilda Solis said.
The unemployment rates were still high, unacceptable in
the US and across the globe, she said, adding there was the
need for creating more jobs. PTI LKJ
MYR
Washington, Apr 20 (PTI) India's National Rural Employment
Generation Scheme has come in for praise from the US, which
said the key innovation has been "successful" beyond the
expectations of almost everyone and worth emulating.
The Obama Administration, which is keenly awaiting a
briefing on the United Progressive Alliance government's
flagship scheme from Indian Labour Minister Mallikarjun
Kharge, said there are lessons that are transferable to other
countries at low and middle income levels.
Kharge will give an overview of NREGA at the first ever
meet of G-20 labour ministers here convened at the instance of
President Barack Obama. The meeting is beginning on Tuesday.
Top officials from the US Department of Labour, organisers
of the event, said the innovative 100-day rural employment
guarantee scheme has been successful beyond the expectations
of almost every one.
"India has learnt and has refined the strategy. So there
is a great deal of anticipation to hear from Minister Kharge
about these policies, how they have worked, and are there
lessons that are transferable to other countries at low and
middle income levels," Deputy Under Secretary for
International Affairs Sandra Polaski told foreign journalists.
"The employment minister from India, who is attending the
conference, has been asked to speak about that as one of the
key innovations that India has made, a policy which has been
challenging to implement but at the end of the day very
successful. I think successful beyond the expectations
of almost everyone," Polaski told reporters.
Labour and employment ministers from top 20 economies of
the world are scheduled to attend the conference.
Recommendations of the conference would be submitted to
the next G-20 Summit meeting in Toronto later this year.
"This meeting, as you know, comes at a time of tremendous
challenge for workers in the G-20 countries. The prompt
actions of many of our governments last year prevented a true
global depression. The ILO, estimates that 20 million jobs
were saved or created by collective stimulus plans and our
social safety nets in 2009 and 2010," US Labour Secretary
Hilda Solis said.
The unemployment rates were still high, unacceptable in
the US and across the globe, she said, adding there was the
need for creating more jobs. PTI LKJ
MYR
