NREGA is destroying artisans: nirmala sitharaman in hindu bizline. well, brits did it first, so it must be good, no?

jun 15th, 2011 CE

brits destroyed the entire clusters of small enterprises, artisans, metalworkers, weavers, leatherworkers and other skilled workers in the brahmaputra and kaveri deltas, which together accounted for some 15% of world GDP in 1700 CE. they turned these skilled workers into itinerant, landless laborerers, which is the cause of endemic poverty even today -- prosperous tradespeople were overnight turned into paupers.

now NREGA is repeating this, says nirmala sitharaman. 

figures.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/article2104448.ece