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. Impact of SWC under MNAREGA on rural livelihoods in Rainfed Agriculture. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (accepted).

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Title . Impact of SWC under MNAREGA on rural livelihoods in Rainfed Agriculture. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (accepted).
. Impact of SWC under MNAREGA on rural livelihoods in Rainfed Agriculture. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (accepted).
 
Creator ICAR_CRIDA
 
Subject existence, enactmen, Parliament .
 
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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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Date 2020-02-25T09:10:12Z
2020-02-25T09:10:12Z
2012
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/32897
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Rama Rao CA