NREGA worksites; farmers may have to sell their land, thereby laying foundation for the corporate farming. Economists like Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya have described NREGA as "an inefficient instrument of shifting income to the poor" – the general notion being that it takes five rupees to transfer one rupee to NREGA workers. Economists including Surjit Bhalla have termed it as unsuccessful suggesting that schemes such as the NREGA need to be junked, saying that any scheme with 85 percent leakages can't be proclaimed to be "working successfully". Issues related to delayed/inadequate wage payments persist in the programme’s implementation. The workers points of view can be summed up as: labourers do not get more than Rs. 80 in the private agricultural labour market, there is no farm work for several months; few old age people who are jobless for at least 8 months a year; when farm work is available they go there first; farmers employ only young and strong persons to work in their farms and reject the others and hence many go jobless most of the time. See also Economic development in India Poverty in India Midday Meal Scheme Public Distribution System National Food Security Act, 2013 Attacks on RTI activists in India Job guarantee Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana Notes References Citations Sources Further reading External links Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India Report of the CAG on Performance Audit of MGNREGA MGNREGA Sameeksha, An Anthology of Research Studies on MGNREGA MGNREGA Master Circular Guide FY2018-19 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Watershed Works Manual 2006 Women in NREGA: Issues of Child Care. Case Studies from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh MGNREGA : Registration on Portal Employment in India Rural development in India Welfare in India Indian labour law Right to work Work relief programs