Mango plantation: A reminder of how NREGA can tremendously contribute to rural development

Whichever way you look at it, the IRR is really high: 31% in the baseline scenario. Even in an ultra-conservative scenario where the baseline yields and output price are halved, and just 30% of the saplings survive, our estimated IRR is still a respectable 6% - similar to the rate of return on NREGA wells in the IHD study cited earlier.