Amrita Dhiman

Amrita Dhiman is Assistant Professor at Development Management Institute (DMI), Patna. She holds a Bachelor's degree in agriculture from Govind Ballabh (G.B.) Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, and postgraduate diploma in management (PGDM) with specialisation in agribusiness management from VAMNICOM (Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Co-operative Management), Pune.
She has extensive field exposure and experience of working with corporate houses, government, and academic institutions for more than nine years. Prior to joining DMI, she has been working as a Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellow (PMRDF) in Bihar wherein she worked on various government schemes. She has contributed to capacity-building of officers, staff, and public representatives regarding various government programmes, and to documenting those initiatives for improved governance and outreach. Her interests include farm and off-farm livelihoods, agribusiness management, leadership, and good governance

The development disconnect: MNREGA in Bihar's Jamui district
In this note, Amrita Dhiman describes her team’s visit to Jamui district in Bihar – the district that is supposed to have generated the highest number of person-days under MNREGA in its division in 2015-16. While almost all villagers they met had MNREGA cards, there was no MNREGA work to be seen, which was paradoxical given the obvious scope of work in the area.
