MGNREGA_SAMEEKSHA

Acknowledgements
This report is an anthology of research of several academicians, scholars and policy-analysts. We would
like to acknowledge each one of them and express our gratitude for their contributions.
We are indebted to Dr Jean Dreze and Dr C. Rammanohar Reddy for their thorough review of the
manuscript. Their insightful suggestions helped shape important sections of this report.
We are grateful to Dr Sunita Narain, Mr Rangu Rao, Mr Pramathesh Ambasta, Mr Shilp Verma, Dr Reetika
Khera, Dr Rohini Pande and Dr Rinku Murgai for their very useful feedback on different chapters.
At the Ministry of Rural Development, a special thanks to Mr S. Vijay Kumar, Secretary, Rural Development;
Dr Arvind Mayaram, Special Secretary and Financial Advisor; Mr S. M. Vijayanand, Additional Secretary;
Mr D. K. Jain, Joint Secretary, MGNREGA; for their support and inputs. We would also like to thank
Mr Amlanjyoti Majumdar for helping facilitate the process of publication of this report.
We appreciate the assistance of and technical inputs from Mr Ashutosh Gupta, Mr Ritesh Saxena, Dr Nilay
Ranjan and Dr Deepender Kumar.
Our greatest debt of gratitude is to Dr Mihir Shah who guided us through the entire process, read through
several drafts of the manuscript and saved us from many errors of omission and commission.