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 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a social safety net program that provides employment to over 35 million households and has an annual budget of Rs 39,000 crores / about US$8 billion for 2009–10. Despite its statutory mandate for social accountability at all levels of implementation, NREGS does not reach its intended benefi ciaries because of low awareness of their entitlements under this program. In 2007, the CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research & Training (CUTS CART) in Rajasthan introduced a social accountability intervention in Sirohi District to evaluate the implementation of NREGS and inform higher levels of policy making. This accountability intervention has triggered a series of behavioral and institutional changes within NREGS benefi ciaries and service providers as well as various levels of government agencies, including heightened benefi ciary awareness of NREGS entitlements and increased government initiatives to improve work measurement standards and recruit more women as fi eld supervisors.  (Read more) ...

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    Do you feel stringent laws to prevent corruption and rights (such as access to information) given to common people can lead towards policy paralyses?

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    Governments in South Asian countries are gradually becoming more afraid of the activities of Civil Society Organizations and thus taking steps to restrain CSOs. Do you feel there would be serious impact on the role played by CSOs in the overall governance and development?


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    Companies in India are evidently absent from a four-year-old United Nations-led global initiative against corruption. Do you agree that private companies are in tune with corruption?


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    In the current scenario, where information is attached with lot of strings, do you feel dissemination of information is crucial for enhancing accountability ?


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    Social networking sites are effective tool for lobbying and bringing pro-poor changes ?


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    Do you feel social accountability tools are cost effective way of enhancing effectivness of development efforts ?


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    Even though the common man suffers corruption at the very low levels of bureaucracy, it is the big players who indulge in high level corruption ?


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