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A study on impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Mahendragarh district of Haryana

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Title A study on impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Mahendragarh district of Haryana
 
Creator Rakesh Kumar
 
Contributor Goyal, S. K.
 
Subject Cultivation, Vegetative propagation, Yields, Farmyard manure, Crops, biological development, Planting, Polymers, Drying, Harvesting
 
Description The present study was undertaken with the objectives (i) to study the socio-economic profile
of the selected respondents (ii) to examine the impact of the scheme on the employment and income of
rural households and overall wage rate and (iii) to examine various shortcomings of the MGNREGA.
Mahendragarh district of Haryana state was purposively selected. All the five blocks were taken from
the selected district; from each block two villages were randomly selected totaling 10 villages. Ten
MGNREGA job card holders were randomly selected from each selected village. Thus, the total sample
consisted of 100 respondents. The study revealed that the highest proportion i.e. 39 per cent of the total
respondents were in the age group of 30 to 40 years. Eighty four per cent of the respondents were
males. The majority of the respondents were literate. The highest proportion i.e. 66 per cent of the total
respondents belonged to Scheduled Castes. Respondents having BPL cards had low participation than
others. Eighty two per cent of the respondents were landless. Majority of the respondents were nonfarm
labours and also majority of the respondents got job card in the year 2006-07. Majority of job card
holders did not get employment in almost all the years. The average annual income of working
respondents was about Rs. 6807 under MGNREGA during the year 2011-12. The contribution of
MGNREGA income was about 9 per cent to the total family income of working respondents. The
average employment per respondent decreased from about 23 days in 2006-07 to about 14 days in
2011-12. MGNREGA has resulted into hike in wage rates for various activities in the study areas. All
the facilities were not provided to the workers under MGNREGA in Mahendragarh district. The major
problems faced by respondents were lack of information/awareness about MGNREGA, job card not
handed over to them and limited employment etc. In all the selected villages, on an average 77.6
percent population belonged to OBC followed by 14.55 percent SC and only 7.86 percent of General
category. Out of total households, 64 percent were agricultural households. Most of the job cards were
applied and issued during 2006-07 followed by the year 2010-11 in all the blocks. The proportion of
persons doing actual work to the total job cards issued was very low in almost all the selected blocks.
In the study area, there was a common problem of non-availability of camel carts at low rate fixed by
the government. The majority of panchayats also reported the problem of non-availability of labour due
to the low wage rate under MGNREGA. Most of the panchayats also reported that the formalities to be
done are more than required. There is a need of further strengthening of the MGNREGA to generate
sufficient employment for rural workers.
 
Date 2016-10-28T14:08:52Z
2016-10-28T14:08:52Z
2012
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/82754
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU