<P> A major criticism of the MNREGA is that a lot of money disbursed by the government gets siphoned off by middlemen of all religions, thus leaving a number of MGNREGA workers either with unpaid wages or less than standard wages . In Mahuadand, Jharkhand, most of the people who had worked under the MNREGA did not get paid, while some either got paid less than stipulated or were given 5 kgs of rice by private contractors instead . </P> <P> Another criticism of NREGA is that it is making agriculture less profitable . Landholders often oppose it on these grounds . The big farmer's point of view can be summed up as follows: landless labourers are lazy and they don't want to work on farms as they can get money without doing anything at NREGA worksites; farmers may have to sell their land, thereby laying foundation for the corporate farming . </P> <P> Economists like Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya have described NREGA as "an inefficient instrument of shifting income to the poor"--the general notion being that it takes five rupees to transfer one rupee to NREGA workers . Economists including Surjit Bhalla have termed it as unsuccessful suggesting that schemes such as the NREGA need to be junked, saying that any scheme with 85 percent leakages can't be proclaimed to be "working successfully". </P> <P> The workers points of view can be summed up as: labourers do not get more than Rs. 80 in the private agricultural labour market, there is no farm work for several months; few old age people who are jobless for at least 8 months a year; when farm work is available they go there first; farmers employ only young and strong persons to work in their farms and reject the others and hence many go jobless most of the time . </P>

Why do you think m g n r e g a 2005 is referred to as right to work