Mutuality and competition: Female landless labour and wage rates in Tamil Nadu

This article examines the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in two districts of Tamil Nadu—Panchetti and Salem. It describes the functioning of the Act based on a preliminary field study and documents the views of implementers and beneficiaries. This analysis reiterates that the implementation should drive policy and that the evaluation lessons need to filter back to the design of the policy. More specifically, MGNREGA requirements can be improved on two counts: one, wage determination and wage rates; and two, evolving better techniques to measure labour productivity.

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COVID-19: A STUDY OF CHALLENGES FACED BY DAILY WAGE WORKERS AND MIGRANTS IN INDIA.

10.36106/ijar/9811589 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Aparna H

Keyword(s):

Migrant Workers ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Research Work ◽

Primary Source ◽

Work Force ◽

Well Being ◽

Wage Rates ◽

The Government ◽

Daily Wage ◽

The Impact

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the daily wage workers and migrants has been largely unsettling and it has pushed our economy to recession. Wages have an important role in maintaining the livelihood and the well-being of the work force. According to Jules Backman, a fluctuation in wage rates stands as a great concern to everyone in the economy. To a worker, wage is an important source of livelihood, to a businessman wage symbolizes cost and in the eyes of the government, wage is represented as potential taxes. Therefore, any alterations in the worker’s livelihood can cause an adverse impression on the economy. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drained the livelihoods of millions of daily wage workers and migrants and their socio-economic conditions have also been shaken. This study will elucidate the disputes confronted by the daily wage workers and migrants. Two surveys have been conducted for this study. Study 1: A survey was taken among 130 daily wage workers to understand the Problems encountered by them. Study 2: To highlight the difficulties faced by the migrants, a survey was taken among 100 migrants. The research work is based on primary source of data collected by interviewing the daily wage and migrant workers of Coimbatore and Tirupur districts of Tamil Nadu.

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Pauperising the Rural Poor: Landless Labour in Tamil Nadu

South Asia Research ◽

10.1177/026272809301300202 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 101-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karin Kapadia

Keyword(s):

Tamil Nadu ◽

Rural Poor ◽

Landless Labour

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Counterfeiting What? Aesthetics of Exteriority and the Ontology of the Brand in Tamil Nadu, India

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e624912011-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Constantine Nakassis

Keyword(s):

Tamil Nadu

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Farmers Clubs and Livelihood Opportunities through Livestock Development: An Analysis in Select Villages of Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu

PRODUCTIVITY ◽

10.32381/prod.2018.59.01.6 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 56-61

Author(s):

P. BALAMURUGAN ◽

Keyword(s):

Tamil Nadu ◽

Livestock Development

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Natural parasitism of eggs of yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas Walker (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in rice ecosystem at Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu

ENTOMON ◽

10.33307/entomon.v45i3.549 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 181-188

Author(s):

T. Sharmitha ◽

C. Gailce Leo Justin ◽

S. Sheeba Joyce Roseleen ◽

P. Yasodha

Keyword(s):

Field Study ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Host Density ◽

Stem Borer ◽

Scirpophaga Incertulas ◽

Egg Masses ◽

Yellow Stem Borer ◽

Rice Ecosystem ◽

Natural Parasitism

Three species of parasitoids viz., Telenomus dignus Gahan, Trichogramma japonicum, Ishii and Tetrastichus schoenobii Ferriere were recorded from the egg masses of rice yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) in a field study. The extent of parasitism was high during Rabi (43.33 – 93.33 %) and low during Kharif (0 - 40.00 %). Parasitism by T. dignus was maximum in October (50.00 %), T. japonicum, in November (23.08 %) and T. schoenobii in February (55.55 %). dignus and T. schoenobii in combination parasitized maximum number of egg masses (41.82 %). Multiple parasitism by the three species was high in December (8.33 %) and January (7.14%). Parasitic potential was maximum, when T. schoenobii alone parasitised the egg masses followed by T. dignus and T. schoenobii in combination. Host density in the field influenced the extent of parasitism.

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