Modi’s anti-women scheme

For a government that claims to uphold ‘nari shakti’, the dilution of MGNREGA is an inexplicable misstep.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s decision to revamp India’s signature rural job guarantee scheme is ill-advised, petty, myopic and dubious from an intention point of view. However, what it is above all is emphatically and unequivocally anti-women, perhaps without an overt understanding that it is so.