N R E G A..

A mind has got under hibernation since Sunday. The reason is NREGA, national rural employment guarantee act. Before crucifying the actual basics, I would narrate a story.

A female aged in her mid-thirties asked in anguish,” Why can’t schools be open in summer vacations too?” The journalist stood their frozen as if trying to pacify her motherly emotions for her child. She repeated,” It could fetch my child a mid-day meal that I can never arrange before night. My child could save some food for his grandfather too.” This is bitter reality nevertheless, it is as bitter as any famine. Two days intensive reading over this topic has ripened out the real essence of life. Leading life in a plush manner, one cannot even let the reins of their mind race through this hard fact of life in their wildest nightmares.

How a person works burdened under the piles of responsibility? And it could never get worse when one has to migrate to nearby sites to ensure his family would not die out of hunger. Gulping the hot coffee after midnight to read such horrendous unpleasant facts, nothing could be more tragic. Unleashing such facts would be pacified in a day or two in this mud-slinging pessimistic world. Calling out the persons, who can loiter around with ecstasy in office, optimistic is utter non-sense. Surviving through the natural catastrophes moving ahead without losing the vigorous sting is all about being optimistic. persons like me will shudder over such news as if applying it to polish my vocabulary. still i consider it a very noble aspect of government to initiate and support such acts which are a boon for rural india, which is the native place of the soul of our country...