NREGA Reforms, Building Rural India

Entry 34

Synopsis: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) promises the largest ever employment program in human history. Even as the film discovers massive challenges of implementation, it learns how a reformed NREGA can regenerrate the environment and create millions of sustainable livelihoods, kick starting a stagnant rural economy.

The film traces the historical roots of NREGA to the Great Depression of late 1920s. It records myriad unheard voices from India’s remote rural hinterlands, which speak of the distress that led to the enactment of NREGA and the efforts to make it a success.

The experiences and insights provided by the film could be a beacon of light for the planet struggling to come to terms with a grave economic & ecological crisis.