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Narega - What's Going on in the Sector?

There are two broader trends which we have observed with Narega over the last seven eight years if not longer. One is it was originally conceived as a decentralized scheme where you sort of established accountability through using grand penchiots and block development offices for administration. Now that seems to be a lot of centralization with a lot of decision making centered in the hands of the rural development ministry. The other thing one of the enablers of this centralization seems to be technological intermediationYou got app based attendance you got this management information software so how exactly are these two broad trends playing out from the workers perspective? It's very important like this whole process of youth of technology and centralization kind of

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