Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
The Indian ruling classes showed the audacity to throw crumbs of charity to 90% of Indian workers in the form of a large number of disparate and poorly organised schemes and programmes to provide social assistance to specific categories of poor, purported to generate employment during slack seasons and droughts, improve access of the poor to land and other productive assets. These schemes are arbitrarily assigned to various ministries; are for shorter durations with inadequate funding and are non-statutory in character. These are targeted, inherently exclusive and the implementation depends on the whims and fancies of the bureaucrats.
