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MGNREGS in the Context of Recent Changes in Rural India: Learning from Selected States

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Title MGNREGS in the Context of Recent Changes in Rural India: Learning from Selected States
 
Creator Mishra, R N
Viswanathan, P K
Bhattarai, M
Iyengar, H
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Despite growing double digit level of
annual growth for the last one and half
decades, the lack of regular employment
and mass prevalence of under
employment is still a major factor of
persistent rural poverty and vulnerability
in India, especially among certain ethnic
communities and in rural hinterlands.
In 2006, the Government of India
implemented the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)
to address the growing rural distress and
vulnerabilities. Based on synthesis of
research findings and several case studies
across the states of India that were
presented at the national workshop on
MGNREGS organized in Ahmadabad on
10-11 December 2013, this policy brief
summarizes the key messages and policy
level challenges emerge while improvingthe performances of the MGNREGS
program. The employment guarantee
schemes like MGNREGS have provided
meaningful employment to the poor and
vulnerable sections of the society. In many
respect, the scheme is successful in
bringing marginalized sections and
women to mainstream labour force,
reducing vulnerability in rural areas, and
in integrating a vast section of neglected
rural population to formal financial
institutions like banks and postal offices
saving schemes, especially of rural agricultural labor forces of women and
backward communities. The implementation
of MGNREGS in areas with higher
agricultural wage seems a problem due to
better opportunities for labor in other
sectors of the economy than the MGNREGS
work activities. Therefore, better targeting
of the schemes to backward districts and
in those rural areas where seasonal
unemployment is rampant, and where
overall agricultural wage rate is at
staggering low level for a long time.
Likewise, better convergence of the
MGNREGS activities at the community
level with the other on-going rural
development and livelihood improvement
activities will provide better synergy
effects of the programs and high impact on
the ground in terms of long term livelihood
improvement, and long-run sustainability
of the program activities
 
Publisher Gujarat Institute of Development Research
 
Date 2014
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8760/1/GIDR-ICRISAT%20Policy%20Brief%201-Final.pdf
Mishra, R N and Viswanathan, P K and Bhattarai, M and Iyengar, H (2014) MGNREGS in the Context of Recent Changes in Rural India: Learning from Selected States. Monograph. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.