{"id":2923,"date":"2008-01-17T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/18-days-a-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T09:54:39","slug":"18-days-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/18-days-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Days a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I didn&#8217;t want this point to be buried in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/the-shameless-jean-dreze\/\">the last post<\/a>, so I will make a new post out of it.\u00a0 Most newspapers have pointed out that of the 100 days of employment a year that the NREGS guarantees to anyone who asks for it, the poor get only 18 days on average.\u00a0 This is <em>not <\/em>the true scope of the leakage in the system. In fact, if the government wanted to spend 100 rupees and the bureaucrats manage to spend only 18, then they have unwittingly saved 82 rupees of our\u00a0money. They should get an award for this or something.\u00a0The real leakage starts after that. It is anybody&#8217;s guess how much of the 18 rupees actually reaches the poor. Given that the CAG says that the system of checks and balances does not work, it is entirely possible that the actual amount reaching the real poor is negligible.<\/p>\n<p>What the 18 days figure tells us is how utterly our system of governance has broken down. It has collapsed so much that our politicians and civil servants cannot even milk the government machinery <em>for their own benefit<\/em>.\u00a0 That thought is really scary, and in a way gives me hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I didn&#8217;t want this point to be buried in the last post, so I will make a new post out of it.\u00a0 Most newspapers have pointed out that of the 100 days of employment a year that the NREGS guarantees to anyone who asks for it, the poor get only 18 days on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}