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Title: | Impact of NREGS on Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Capital Formation |
Other Titles: | Impact of NREGS on Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Capital Formation |
Authors: | ICAR_CRIDA |
ICAR Data Use Licennce: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdf |
Author's Affiliated institute: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Published/ Complete Date: | 2010 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | National Rural, Employment ,Guarantee, Scheme (NREGS) existence , enactment , Parliament Act ,National Rural,Employment ,Guarantee |
Publisher: | Reddy K.S., Rama Rao C.A., and Venkateswarlu B. |
Citation: | Not Available |
Series/Report no.: | Not Available; |
Abstract/Description: | The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) came into existence after the enactment of a Parliament Act ‘National Rural Employment Guarantee Act’ (2005) in September 2005. The scheme was launched on 26th February from Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. The scheme initiated in 200 districts was subsequently enlarged twice to cover all the 593 rural districts of the country. The scheme has now been re-christened as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The goals of the scheme are strong social safety net for the vulnerable groups by providing a fall-back employment source, growth engine for sustainable development of an agricultural economy, empowerment of rural poor through the processes of a rights-based law and new ways of doing business, as a model of governance reform anchored on the principles of transparency and grass root democracy (Government of India, 2008). The primary objective of the scheme is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The scheme has a systematic approach with regard to identification of works, issue of job cards to the eligible and execution of works, provision for social audit and transparency in payment among others. The scheme in the last four years of its existence has brought in a noticeable change in the rural areas with regard to employment opportunities, nature of works, systems and procedures in work opportunities. Agricultural employment growth rate of 0.40 per cent during 1993-94 to 2004-05 and that of rural non-agricultural employment growth rate of 3.52 during the same period (Planning Commission, 2010) indicate that the rural areas did not provide |
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ISSN: | Not Available |
Type(s) of content: | Technical Report |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
Name of Journal: | Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics |
NAAS Rating: | 5.3 |
Volume No.: | 65(3) |
Page Number: | 524-539 |
Name of the Division/Regional Station: | Not Available |
Source, DOI or any other URL: | Not Available |
URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33060 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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