A beautiful experience

it must be counted as one of my dream experience.one of my friend received call from his prof. about our willingness to join the seminar of a reputed developmental economist" jean dreze" and his aide "reetika khare".we hurriedly agreed and rushed toward patna youth hostel where,it was organised.Before moving ahead in sharing details of my experience,i must share with you the profile this prof. "this" IIT educated guy left the high paying lucrative job for the social service in his native state.beside teaching us ,he is involved in numerous activities.he is working with RTI ,flood relief NGO,NREGS .....and many more others.this seminar was about the implementation of NREGS.Given the fair measure of success the ongoing NREGS has achieved,it must be credited to "jean dreze",one of the vocal supporter of this scheme.he has conducted several social audit on the implementation of this scheme.NREGS is basically provided in the rural areas.while speaking in the seminar,he stressed about replicating the NREGS in the urban areas also.the demographic and economic difference that exist b/w rural and urban india call for a modification of NREGS pattern in devising an urbn employment gurantee scheme.he also told that an urban public EGS should improve upon the current prototype,which hinges n creating jobs largely through public works.he aws quite vocal about the government involvement in the socio-economic development by stating thatgovernment should adress and create environment necessary for the rural and urban economic development at the same par.he also talked about the contradiction b/w the scheme such as NREGS and post liberalisation(which started in 1990s),but maintained that with strong political will,it can be successfully implemented.we also shared some of our knowlrdge with him,when our prof. introduced us to him.it was truly a very beautiful experience which lasted for about two hours.