Abstract
This article examines the paucity of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)-related information on government Internet sites. Analyzing not simply the extent but also the content of the government website material, the essay attempts to show how a lack of information on the implementation of the Act is obscured by an onslaught of statistics. Given that transparency is indispensable to the working of the NREGA, and also a fundamental tenet of the government’s IT services, the unavailability of matter on the functioning of the Act deserves serious consideration. The article finally goes on to make suggestions for how the government can use its online spaces to provide useful information for both NREGA officials and civil society groups, ultimately to aid the implementation of the Act.
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