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Gender Perspectives on Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India: Study across SAT Villages

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Title Gender Perspectives on Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India: Study across SAT Villages
 
Creator Viswanathan, P K
Mishra, R N
Bhattarai, M
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This policy brief presents the key findings
and policy suggestions on gender aspects
of implementation of MGNREGS in
dryland region of India. This is based on
the recent study across 10 villages in
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and
Gujarat. Nearly 30% of the total 490
women respondents surveyed indicated
that they used the wage income from
MGNREGS towards meeting daily
consumption needs, while 20% reported
using the wage income for meeting the
expenses towards education of children
and meeting health needs of the
household. By and large, about 70% of the
respondents also observed that their
status in the household and the
community had increased after working in
MGNRGS and securing equal wage
payments.
 
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/8761/1/GIDR-ICRISAT%20Policy%20Brief%202-Final.pdf
Viswanathan, P K and Mishra, R N and Bhattarai, M (2014) Gender Perspectives on Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India: Study across SAT Villages. Monograph. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.