An Open Letter to the Indian Government in Support of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Please read the open letter and add your name to the list of experts below calling for the preservation of the NREGA law.
Pinar Kahya, Inonu University
Claire Jackson-Prior, The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies
Daniel Kostzer, Chief Economist ITUC International Trade Union Confederation
Fadhel Kaboub, President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
Alan Aja, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Eric Tymoigne, Lewis & Clark College
William Darity Jr., Howard University and Duke University
Agustin Mario, UNM-CONICET (Argentina)
Matthew Robinson, Director, Center for Economic Information, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Sidharth R, IIT Roorkee
Yeva Nersisyan, Franklin and Marshall College
Steven Hail, Torrens University Australia
Surbhi Kesar, SOAS University of London
Devananda Sindhu, Miranda House, Delhi University
Jashodhara Dasgupta
Kakali Barua, Lady Shri Ram College for Woman. University of Delhi
Sparsh Maheshwari, Project DEEP
Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen
Shambhu Ghatak, Private Company
C P Chandrasekhar, PERI, UMass and IDEAs
Indumugi C., Advocate, New Delhi
Maddukuri Vihasree, Azim Premji University
Prachi Bansal, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
Sweta Dash, Researcher and independent journalist
Ananya Iyengar, St. Stephen’s College
Swati Narayan, Assistant Professor, National Law School of India University
Anshuman Singh, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Shiuli Saha, Delhi School of Economics
Anjana Thampi, O P Jindal Global University, India
Jit Hazarika, Tetso College, Nagaland
Varun K, Harvard University
Akansha Gupta, Delhi school of economics
Rosa Abraham, Other
Priyaranjan Sinha, Independent Professional
Krishna Priya Choragudi, Azim Premji University
Gaurav Bhattacharya, Ahmedabad University
M A Fathima Afrin, National Law School of India University
Priyanshu Chavda, Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Timothée Duverger, Head of Chaire “Territoires de l’ESS” at Sciences Po Bordeaux and Researcher at Center Emile Durkheim
Deepanshu Prajapati, Hindu College, University of Delhi
Rohit Das, YSD Centre
Parvathi Vijayan, Independent Researcher
Kate Philip, Presidential Employment Stimulus, South Africa.
Ashraf Pulikkamath, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Andhra Pradesh (AP) University
Shirin Motala, Human Sciences Research Council
Muhsina CP, PhD Scholar, IIM Kozhikode
Simerleen Kaur, Graduate and Alumna, Delhi School of Economics
Fathima Shahana Arakkal, Assistant Professor
Bhushan Khillare, Social Worker, NGO Sector, Maharashtra
Kasturi Kandalam, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi Centre)
Sonam Kumari
Nishana AP, Aligarh Muslim University
Aleena mariya P T, Mahatma Gandhi University
Atul Shendge
Fidha C
Raghav Chakravarthy, Maastricht University
Jameelah Diaby, University of Exeter
Abina Ali, IIT Goa
Abiya Joseph, Central university of Tamil Nadu
Daksh Walia, University of Oxford
Upasak Das, Senior Lecturer, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Kamalesh Pahurkar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Jitu Kadam, Social Worker, Maharastra
Varsha Mehta
Sana Rajar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
John Michael, Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Asia-Pacific
Abhishek Shaw, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
Aravind Unni, Urban practitioner and policy researcher, India
Anne Mary Job, Department of Social Work, St Berchmans College, Changanassery, Kottayam, Kerala
Amitabha Sarkar, The Geneva Graduate Institute
Abdul Kalam Azad, Assistant Professor and Programme Director, Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development
Prasad Chacko, People’s Union for Civil Liberties
Md Tajuddin Khan, Roanoke College, Virginia
Ashil Ismail, IIIT-Delhi
Sourabh Rai, Hansraj College
Aparna Rajesh, Forum Against Economic and Environmental Injustice
Pratibha Caleb
Sachin Sangwan, Delhi University
David Brennan, Franklin & Marshall College
Rajat Singh Yadav, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
Visalakshy Sasikala, PhD alumnus, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Sona Mitra
Akheel Adam, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Ndongo Samba Sylla, International Development Economics Associates
Ruchira Sen, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication
Asmita Basak, South Asian University, New Delhi
Balasai Vanukuri, Paris School of Economics
Ajeet Singh, Rural Voice Media
Sunanda Sen, Retired Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi
Aishwarya Unnikrishnan, The Education Alliance
Lukas Lehner, University of Edinburgh
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Levy Economics Institute
Rania Antonopoulos, Levy Economics Institute
Pablo Cabañas, UNAM MÉXICO
Anagha P
S Subramanian, Independent Scholar
Stefan Groote, University of Tartu
Sana Ahmad, Weizenbaum Institute
James Chiriyankandath, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Scott Ferguson, University of South Florida
Jade Lyngdoh, Director, Centre for Policy
Sruthisagar Yamunan, SJD candidate, Central European University, Vienna
Saul Escobar, Instituto de Estudios Obreros “Rafael Galván” AC
Sabri Öncü, Director of Economic and Social Research Center, Pensioners Solidarity Union (EDS), Türkiye
Srilaxmi Srilaxmi, Civil society actor
Yan Liang, Willamette University
Pratheek Bhat, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISC campus.
Patrick Heller, Brown University
Abinash Dash Choudhury, University of Georgia, Athens
Pete Vechsuruck, University of Rhode Island
Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University
James Nickola
Junaid M, Jamia millia islamia
Yazir P, Assistant Professor, Economics, Farook College
Navpreet Kaur, MH
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Independent Journalist & Writer
Munish Sharma, GRAMA
Ketharinath Kamalanathan, Vellore Institute of Technology
Rick Glofcheski, University of Hong Kong
Ishan Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Kiran Kumar, Independent Research Scholar
Chaithanya Krishna, Center for studies in social sciences, Calcutta
Sujit Chauhan, IIT Bombay
Deepan Roy, St Xavier’s University
G Venket Ramana, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Aparajay Kumar, Assistant Professor, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
Soumya Datta, South Asian University
Sankar Varma, Department of Economics, Christ (Deemed to University)
Samuel Asir Raj, Retired Professor
Mohan Kumar, VIT
SURIYAN KARUPPIAH, Bharathidasan University
Saravanan Velusamy, JNU
Shah Ala Khan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Ashok Kumar Somal, Loktantric Rashtr Nirman Abhiyan
Sangeeta Ghosh, ISID
Atulan Guha, IIM Kashipur
Faizan Ahmad, University of Oxford
Josephine Joseph, CWcSN
Sara Holland, Founder Member, Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies, UK
Suranjan Sinha, Independent professional, Johannesburg
Blessy I, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Riya Parikh, Alum: Azim Premji University, Independent Researcher
Ashwath Ramesh, Roma Tre University, Italy
Gurusaravanan M, Institute of Grassroots Governance
Devika Dutt, King’s College London
Nastassia Harbuzova, Tallinn University of Technology
Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Stuti Khanna, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Natasha Maru, International Land Coalition/ Institute of Development Studies, UK
Angus Deaton, Princeton University
Vignesh M, Aajeevika Bureau
Kannan Narayanaswamy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Shahin Ashkiani, Independent Researcher
Paloma Bhattacharyya, Université Paris 1: Panthéon Sorbonne
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Network
Jaisreekumar V, Totem Resource Centre
Vinoj Abraham, Centre for Development Studies
Vinod Vyasulu
Abinash Dash Choudhury, Ph.D. Candidate at University of Georgia, Athens
Sudhir Vombatkere, National Alliance of People’s Movements
Shohini Sengupta, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Sunil Kumar Sinha, Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh
Suranjan Sinha, Independent Professional, Johannesburg.
Rania Antonopoulos, Senior Scholar, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Marianne Maillot, DG vision philanthropie
Srimanjori Guha, Centre For Development Studies, Kerala, India
Heikki Patomäki, University of Helsinki
Prateek Khobragade, Emory University
Aarushi Kalra, Oxford University
Sarthak Singhal, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Juhi Tyagi, Azim Premji University
Ananta Sabar, Rayagada Autonomous College, Odisha
Suryadeepto Nag, University of Lausanne
Samadrita Haldar, Centre for Development Studies
Subash Bivar, Govt. Servant
Vaishnavi Surendra
Vineeta .
Manohar Boda, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Harshita Pande, IFMR
Isabella Weber, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Laxmi Priya, Department of International Development, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Dr Rajarshi Ghosh, IMI Pass Out PhD, Chief Economist in an organization
Shivani Das, Independent Researcher
Han Cheng, Franklin and Marshall College
Padmini Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University
Ponniah Rajamanickam, All India peoples science network
Saanjuli Gupta, National Law School of India University
Md Danish, Azim Premji University
Anwesha Bhattacharya, Harvard University
Kadasari K Kurumbathevar, RTD Teacher
Antonio Fontana
Dominique Méda, Université Paris Dauphine PsL