INDIA: Welfare scheme failing to provide jobs

Updated January 21, 2008 20:54:20

In India a multi-billion-dollar welfare drive is promising 100 days of work to every rural family that signs up with the scheme. But just per cent of households who signed up are getting a jobs.

Presenter: Murali Krishnan
Speakers: Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Rural Development Minister; Rajeev Baruah, head of organic farming cooperative in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.