ANTI-CORRUPTION
You are empowering India’s most marginalized people to fight
corruption in government schemes. The National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act scheme (NREGA) guarantees 100 days
of employment to rural people. Impoverished workers are hired to
build roads, wells, and other desperately-needed infrastructure–
but in practice, they are rarely paid.
The people of Nawani panchayat in Bihar shocked bureaucrats by
organizing a social audit of NREGA under the guidance of our
partner Transparency International India. They compared the
records to actual wages before an audience of hundreds of
villagers, officials and media re