A report published by the World Bank suggests that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) may have had the unintended effect of forcing children out of school. That MGNREGS has led to an increase in children being made to work seems implausible. The scheme is meant only for adults, and it’s unlikely that age data could have been faked on a vast scale. Nor does it look likely that adults took on jobs and left their children to work at home or in the fields. It assures the rural poor a living.

Source: Mint January 27, 2020 14:29 UTC