Contesting the End of India's Job Guarantee with Khush Vachhrajani
About this episode
This episode discusses the decline of India's national rural jobs program and its implications for social security and poverty alleviation.
For over twenty years, India’s national rural jobs program provided a legal right to work for over 265 million people--the majority of them women--serving as a vital lifeline against poverty and a global model for social security. Tragically, however, that lifeline is now being cut. In this episode, we speak with Khush Vachhrajani, writer and national coordinator at the Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research in India, about his recent article in The Wire, "How to Kill a Golden Go...
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