Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction;
Part I. Early Days;
1. Employment Guarantee and the Right to Work;
2. NREGA: The Official Picture;
Part II. Ground Realities;
3. The Battle for Employment Guarantee;
4. Women Workers and Perceptions of the NREGA;
5. CAG Report on NREGA: Facts and Fiction;
6. Wage Payments: Can We Bank on the Banks?
7. Employment Guarantee and Child Care;
8. The Group Measurement Experiment in Jalore;
9. Empowerment Guarantee Act?
Part III. Contrasting Experiences;
10. Orissa: Ten Loopholes and the Silver Lining;
11. Himachal Pradesh: Assessment and Outlook;
12. Dantewada: Guarantee Withdrawn;
13. Tamil Nadu: Slow and Steady;
Part IV. Trouble Spots;
14. Breaking the Nexus of Corruption;
15. Wage Payments: Live without Pay?
16. The Perils of Gandhigiri;
17. The Wages of Discontent;
18. The Accountability Gap;
19. Estimating Leakages in India's Employment Guarantee;
Bibliography;
List of Contributors;
Name Index;
Subject Index.