It is indeed ironical that, despite the large amounts of money allocated for the series of schemes designed to generate employment in rural areas where millions of people remain jobless or are only partially employed, the ambitious schemes have borne little fruit. There are several reasons for this dismal sequel.
The various employment schemes are drawn up at the top without adequate consolations with the people in the villages who are directly concerned. The bureaucrats do not adequately understand the rural folks’ attitudes and problems. Schemes prepared in the Union Capital by officials suffer from this initial handicap, whatever the amount sanctioned for them. Some examples are the Rural Youth Training for self employment, Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme, National Rural Employment Programme.
There is corruption at every level. There are so many greedy, selfish intermediaries that the schemes and projects, even the most ambitious and well thought out ones, make little impact on the over all situation. There is considerable exploitation by land owners. The unemployed villagers watch the phenomenon helplessly. Unemployment is the bane if rural and also, to a smaller extent, urban India.
To cap it all, there is the highly deplorable and the apparently endless inefficiency. Most of the functionaries who are entrusted with the implementation of the Government schemes are grossly inefficient, and they are indifferent too. Besides, many if the schemes are over ambitious and not practicable.
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