scholarly journals A STUDY ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF MGNREGA HOUSEHOLDS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 275-291
Author(s):  
P. Muneeswaran ◽  
C. Sundarapandian
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Scheduled Castes ◽  
Employment Guarantee

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 is one of the foremost social security in India. It guarantees minimum wage, reduces poverty and checks large scale migration in rural India. It has reduced rural hunger. After implementation of MGNREGA, the Planning Commission estimated that the poverty among Scheduled Castes () in rural areas fell 22 percentage points- from 53.5 per cent in 2004-05 to 31.5 per cent in 2011-12. For that reason, the study focuses on income distribution and the conditions of MGNREGA workers and their households in  district of Tamil state. The sample size of this research work is 345 MGNREGA Scheduled Castes () workers. The study found that there is a significant level of association existing between the annual income of MGNREGA workers/households and their conditions, such as the participants’ gender, age, community and occupation, type of family, size of family, number of employees and migrant workers of the family in the study area.At the same time this study found that there is no significant level association existing between annual income and conditions such as education, type of houses, and marital status. Hence, the MGNREGA is one of themajor factors in determining the income level and also the conditions of the of scheduled castes workers in the study area.

Enriching the Lives of Marginalised Sections: Case of MGNREGS in Composite Andhra Pradesh, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-201
Author(s):  
C. Samba Murty ◽  
M. Srinivasa Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Jobless Growth ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Scheduled Castes ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) initiated in 2006 is essentially a reaction to the jobless growth witnessed in the post-1991 reforms period. The Scheme seeks to improve the livelihoods of the marginalised sections in rural areas by generating wage employment. The article is an attempt to examine if the Scheme is really benefitting these sections as envisaged. Our village survey data of composite Andhra Pradesh (AP) brings to the fore the fact that the socially lowly placed scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and other backward castes (OBCs) were well represented among the beneficiaries of the Scheme, female participation in the Scheme was way beyond expectations, the Scheme was indeed the mainstay of the illiterate and the little educated that look for manual labour, and the otherwise rarely preferred elderly of the labour market found place in the Scheme and they could make significant contribution to earnings of poor households. It further throws up the finding that the Scheme was an important employment avenue to reckon with in the rural labour market and therefore, it increased the bargaining strength and the reservation wage rate of the labour force. Briefly, the Scheme contributed to inclusive growth.

Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Manipur (2015-16): An Assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Khundrakpam Romenkumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
The State ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
The People ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is demand driven , self targeting employment generating poverty alleviation scheme which was launched by the UPA government in 2005 with full of hope to eradicate the problems of poverty and unemployment in the rural areas of India by targeting to provide at least 100 days of employment at each rural households. It is the only employment-generating programme, that a beneficiary can claim legally. The scheme was introduced in Manipur in the year 2008 with lot of hope to minimise the problem of poverty and unemployment in the state but after the eight years of implementation, the programme failed to deliver the expectations the people had on it. In this paper, an assessment of the performance of MGNREGS in Manipur of the year 2015-16 has been made.

scholarly journals Household Level Impact Assessment of MGNREGA Scheme

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-549
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
The Government ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Impact

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) has been notified by the Government of India on 7th September 2005 with the primary objective of enhancing the livelihood security of the unskilled labors in the rural areas of the country by providing guaranteed wage employment to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The MGNREGA, which is one of the flagship projects of the government, promises 100 days of work per year to the unemployed at a CPI inflation-indexed wage rate. As there is an increase in the disposable income on account of the implementation of the scheme, it is expected that the standard of living and the expenditure pattern of the household covered under the MGNREGA scheme would undergo a tremendous change. As most of the expenditure of the rural households covered under the scheme is supposed to be drastically changed, it is felt that there is a need to study the impact of the scheme on these households. This paper is an extract from a Ph. D Thesis titled Household and Village Level Impact of MGNREGS on Governance at the Grassroots: An Assessment of Gram Panchayats in Tamil Nadu. Submitted to the Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University

scholarly journals Implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) across the States of India: An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhagobinda Basak
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Manual Work ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 was introduced in India to create employment opportunities for the rural people. As per the provisions of the said Act, the State Government shall, in rural areas in the state, provide to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work not less than one hundred days of such work in every financial year. The present study attempts to review the performance of the scheme implemented in different states of India. On the basis of some selected parameters, performance of the states, in implementing the Act, has been measured. Ranks have been assigned to the states according to their merit in implementing the scheme.

scholarly journals Role of Women In MGNREGA In Kaithal District of Haryana India

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Mukesh Chahal ◽  
Dr. Pardeep Kumar ◽  
Dr. Kiran Lamba
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Successful Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
Employment Guarantee

Poverty and unemployment remain the main issue in India. These issues are mostly found in rural areas. The Government of India has been formulating various programs for rural growth and poverty eradication. One such programmed is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a successful program in promoting gender equality, empowering women, and creating long-lasting infrastructure in rural areas providing employment. The study was conducted in the Kaithal district of Haryana covering a sample of 100 beneficiaries. The collected data has been analyzed using simple frequency and percentage analysis, descriptive analysis, and correlation analysis. The results have revealed that the program was successful in empowering the women of the district.

scholarly journals Is There a Link between the Changing Skills of Labor Used in U.S. Processed Food Trade and Rural Employment?

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Schluter ◽  
Chinkook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Meat Processing ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Poultry Products ◽  
Skill Intensity

Between the 1970s and the 1990s, processed food exports switched from using more skilled labor per unit of output than imports to the opposite. Processed food trade also expanded during this period. More meat and poultry products in processed food trade could explain this switch in skill intensity. Growing meat trade paralleled an urban-to-rural shift in meat processing. Although this could have been a win-win situation for rural areas, many of the jobs related to expanded meat trade benefited commuter and migrant workers because late-1990s jobs slaughtering livestock and processing meat did not appeal to domestic rural workers.

scholarly journals Role of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Socio-economic Development in Hoshiarpur District of Punjab

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Neha Wasal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Wage Rate ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Economic Profile ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Village

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) aimed at providing direct employment to the deserving rural people has been in operation for last many years. The present study had conducted to assess the role of NREGA programme with the following specific objectives: (i) To study socio-economic profile of the beneficiaries of NREGA (ii) To assess the contribution of NREGA in socio-economic development of its beneficiaries (iii) To identify the factors of success and failure (iv) To render suitable suggestions for further improvement in the NREGA programme. Research gap of this study was to analyze the profitability of social programmes being initiated by governments. Results showed Socio-economic profile of the respondents that most of the respondents were male, in the middle age group, hailing from Schedule Caste category and were having little education and low income level. The profile of beneficiaries of NREGA programme indicated that the benefits of this programme is going to the deserving people. Rural connectivity (repair of roads etc.), village cleanliness, plantation were the major areas in which the NREGA beneficiaries worked under the supervision of a Mate. The village Sarpanch proved to be the major person who made aware to the beneficiary and helped them to get employment under this programme. On an average beneficiary of NREGA got employment for 15 days in a month. All the beneficiaries of the NREGA programme got prescribed wage i.e. Rs.123 per day which was paid timely to the respondents. 1/5th of the respondents held that dependency on the farmers had reduced after joining NREGA programme and also wage rate had increased in other activities in villages due to the arrival of NREGA programme. 38 per cent of the respondents opined that NREGA activities helped them to remove idleness whereas 25 per cent of respondents felt more social recognized after joining NREGA. Overall the launching of NREGA programme had increased the demand for labour in rural areas. The non beneficiary of NREGA programme did not join the NREGA largely due to social inhibition (not ready to do labour in own village), low wage rate and irregularity of work. Irregular grants and work opportunities, less wage rate were the major constrains experienced by the beneficiaries of NREGA. Regularity in grants, generating adequate employment opportunity may prove more useful for NREGA beneficiary and society at large.

scholarly journals Impact of Narega on Rural Areas of Hoshiarpur

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Kanika Sahni ◽  
Nancy Sahni ◽  
Dr.B.P Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Participation Level ◽  
Wage Payment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Since its enactment in 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has been implemented in 200 districts in India, it is an employment programmer coupled with a rural upliftment scheme to create social equity, an empowerment scheme and a crucial public investment method to create durable assets The State is made legally binding to satisfy the right to work and wage payment within 15 days as per this scheme. State Governments are liable to pay unemployment allowance to wage seekers if it fails to provide employment within the stipulated time. The main objective of our study to check the awareness level of people about NREGA scheme, its effectiveness and Women empowerment on the basis of participation level and income household in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. The study conducted is descriptive as well as exploratory and data is collected through structured questionnaire. This study has resulted into positive impact on empowering the women.

scholarly journals A novel approach to improve the efficiency of national rural employment scheme employees using WBASN

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.8) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
P. Rajasekar ◽  
M. Pushpalatha
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Prolonged Duration ◽  
Body Area Sensor Networks ◽  
Break Time ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Employment Guarantee

Health monitoring of human being can be done using implant or wearable sensors. Making use of these sensors to form a network are aptly called as Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASN). Better performance and energy saving can be accomplished in a challenging way in this type of network. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India provides employment for people in rural areas. This involves more intense physical work in the open environment. People involved in this work tend to feel fatigue if they work for prolonged duration. We have conducted experiments in several scenarios to determine the stamina level of employed people and proposed ways to provide how man power can be efficiently improved by giving optimal break time and energy supplement drinks to improve the stamina level. Moreover energy of sensors may be efficiently improved by compressing the data before transmitting them to servers by suitable algorithm as discussed in our paper.

scholarly journals Perilaku Perempuan Pedesaan Dalam Pengambilan Keputusan Sebagai Tenaga Kerja Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Basrowi Basrowi
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future 2 ◽  
The Village

Mayoritas perempuan di pedesaan tidak mempunyai pekerjaan yang tetap. Upah buruh di kampung sangat rendah, sementara kebutuhan hidup sangat bervariasi dan jumlahnya sangat banyak di atas penghasilan yang diperoleh. Permasalahan yang mengemuka dalam penelitian ini adalah, faktor apa sajakah yang menyebabkan perempuan di pedesaan mengambil keputusan untuk menjadi Tenaga kerja Indonesia? Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tentang: 1) latar belakang para TKI berani mendahulukan resiko untuk mendapatkan keselamatan ekonomi di kemudian hari, 2) berbagai ketidakpercayaan Indonesia Migrant Worker dalam menyikapi janji­ janji pemerintah; dan 3) posisi Indonesia migrant worker dalam Rumah Tangga setelah mereka berhasil. Metode yang digunakan yaitu penelitian kuantitatif yang ditunjang metode kualitatif. Pengisian Instrumen, pengamatan, dan wawancara dilakukan antara tanggal 1­30 September 2017 di Bakauheni, Lampung Selatan, Provinsi Lampung yang melibatkan sampel berjumlah 30 orang. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa perilaku Indonesia migrant worker memutuskan untuk menjadi Indonesia migrant worker bukan dalam rangka menghindari resiko dan mendahulukan selamat, tetapi lebih dilatarbelakangi oleh perilaku ingin mendahulukan resiko dan mengharapkan selamat secara ekonomi di kemudian hari. Mereka mempunyai ketidakpercayaan terhadap kapasitas kepala keluarga, kapasitas sumber daya ekonomi yang dimiliki, kemampuan negara dalam menyiapkan lapangan kerja, pertumbuhan ekonomi yang terjadi. Setelah mereka berhasil mereka merasa mempunyai status sosial, posisi kedudukan di masyarakat, dan posisi dalam pembuatan keputusan yang lebih tinggi dibandingkan sebelum menjadi TKI.[The majority of women in rural areas do not have a permanent job. Labor wages in the village are very low, while the necessities of life vary greatly and the amount is very high above the income earned. The problem raised in this study is, what factors cause rural women to decide to become Indonesian workers? This study aims to describe: 1) the background of migrant workers dares to prioritize the risks to obtain economic safety in the future, 2) the various distrust of Indonesian Migrant Workers in responding to the government’s promises, and 3) the position of Indonesian migrant workers in the household after they succeed. The method used is quantitative research supported by qualitative methods. The instrument filling, observation, and interview were conducted between September 1 ­ 30, 2017 at Bakauheni, Lampung Selatan, Lampung Province involving 30 people as a sample. This study concludes that the behavior of the Indonesian migrant worker decides to become an Indonesian migrant worker not in order to avoid risk and to congratulate, but more on the backdrop of risk­seeking behavior, and expects economic survival in the future. They distrust the capacity of the head of the family, the capacity of the economic resources owned, the capacity of the state to prepare for employment, and the economic growth that occurs. Once they are successful, they feel that they have higher social status, position in society, and position in decision making compared with before they become Indonesian Migrant Workers.]

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