scholarly journals SWOC analysis of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Dharmapuri District of Tamil Nadu

2020 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Thirumal Kannan V ◽  
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Raj Pravin T ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Community Assets ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Delay In Payments ◽  
Employment Guarantee

This study was conducted in the Pennagaram block of Dharmapuri district with 120 respondents for identifying the strengths, weakness, opportunities and challenges of MGNREGS. The major strengths are the availability of work with assured wages during the lean season, increase in the bargaining power of agricultural labor in rural areas, increasing their purchasing power of agricultural laborers and assist in proper repair and maintenance of community assets. The weakness identified are delay in payments and defects in carrying out the schedule of rates, lack of planning and expertise in identifying development work and prioritizing them in village panchayats, lack of awareness about social audit and e- muster rolls. With regard to opportunities, it has ensured women’s participation in the labour force leading to their empowerment, ensures food and nutrient security, creates job opportunities for all stakeholders in their rural habitats and prevents and checks migration to nearby towns/cities in search of employment. The challenges are poor allocation of funds and its disbursal to the beneficiaries affecting its functioning, Poor MGNREGS implementation and monitoring resulting in the creation of less public assets and infrastructure facilities, wide spread corruption and misuse of allocated funds and increased political interference in the selection of beneficiaries and assigning of works.

Gender infrastructure gaps galvanise diverse partners

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Development Goals

Subject Efforts to close gender infrastructure gaps. Significance Development institutions, governments, and private-sector investors, developers and operators are increasingly integrating a gender lens into infrastructure projects. This approach is integral to achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), facilitating broad-based economic growth and making infrastructure more efficient and commercially viable. Impacts Improved infrastructure would increase women's participation in the formal labour force, especially in developing cities and rural areas. Better telecommunications access would enable women to move up the value-chain in the gig economy. Gender-sensitive analysis will gradually become central to corporate due diligence.

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 Dinamika Ketenagakerjaan pada Wilayah Pedesaan Lahan Kering di Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Winarso
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
Employment Dynamics ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Labour Participation

Indonesian Population increasing, the other side of the jobs that are limited, it is problems. As a country, agraris reality shows that availability of jobs was largely in agriculture sector. Inhabitant of indonesia development increasing while on the other side of the jobs that are limited, it is still problems. Its reality shows that availability of jobs was largely in agriculture sector. This was demonstrated by the source of livelihood largely from agriculture. As we know that in a domicile of agricultural labors being in the region with agroekosystem dryland which is sometimes tinged by the marginal land. Relating to employment been trying to highlight structure labour participation, especially in terms of level good chance and labour force, according to age, level of education, and types of work as well as people in rural areas, mobilization especially in village with agroekosistem dry land. The provinces that being the location where research is Lampung, South Sulawesi East Java, Central Java and West Java. The result showed that viewed from accessibility, job opportunities then accessibility of labor in this area use hasnt job opportunities outside agriculture. If the employment opportunities, the work got generally the same work often they do in the provenance as labor and transport services. Keywords: employment dynamics, rural areas and dryland

scholarly journals Organizing Micro Economic Scale through Women Empowerment Group (Descriptive Study in Pesanggrahan Village)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andita Uzlifatil Jannah ◽  
Joko Mulyono
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Self Help Groups

The unemployment problem is triggered by the imbalance of job opportunities and the number of job seekers, especially in rural areas. Besides, restrictions on working women based on customs and norms in the village make it difficult for women to find work. The view that women should focus on domestic and family matters. It limits women to work to help improve the family economy. Thus, empowerment for women through community empowerment group is needed to be able to carry out economic activities without having to leave their duties as a housewife. The theoretical framework of this study is the theory of liberal feminism gender based on women's freedom and equality. This study uses a qualitative method and purposive sampling. Data collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study are that empowering women can do business on a micro-scale to help increase family income; Also, this research explains about equality between women and men, and forms of women's participation, democracy, transparency, and accountability in women's empowerment programs. Keywords: Self-help groups, Gender equality, government programs Referensi: Idrus, Muhammad. 2009. Metode Penelitian Ilmu Sosial. Cetakan Kedua. Jakarta: Erlangga Irwan, P. 2006. Penelitian Kualitatif dan kuantitatif untuk ilmu-ilmu sosial.  Depok: FISIP UI PRES Jamaluddin, Dr. Adon Nasrullah. 2015. Sosiologi Perkotaan. Surakarta : Pustaka Setia Materi Pelatihan Tim Vrifikasi PNPM-MP Keamatan Jangkar Tahun 2010 Moleong, Lexy. 2008. Metode penelitian kualitatif. Bandung: Remaja Rosdakarya Nazir. 1988. Metode Penelitian. Jakarta: Galia Indonesia Profil Desa Pesanggrahan Tahun 2018 Satori Djam’an, Komariah Aan. 2012. Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif.  Bandung :Alfabeta Sugihastuti, Saptiawan Itsna Hadi. 2007. Gender & Inferioritas Perempuan.  Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar Sugiyono. 2005. Metode Penelitian Kualitatif. Bandung : Alfabeta

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.

G. K. Chadha. Employment, Earnings, and Poverty: A Study of Rural India and Indonesia. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1994. 294 pages. Indian Rupees 295.00.

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-302
Author(s):  
Hina Nazli
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Water Education ◽  
Job Opportunities

The rural areas of developing countries are not only underdeveloped in terms of their physical infrastructure but also contain a larger proportion of the poor population as compared to the urban areas reflecting the underdeveloped social infrastructure. A majority of the rural population does not have access to the limited social services and amenities, such as safe drinking water, education, electricity, and health services, and is thus struggling for survival. After the Second World War, some of the East Asian countries launched poverty alleviation programmes and attempted to reduce unemployment and underemployment by promoting the ruralbased industries. Their experience reveals that the rural economy cannot grow only through agriculture grOWth. Sustainable growth requires the creation of non-farm job opportunities that will raise the level of employment and income and, consequently, the standard of living. In the absence of such activities, farm unemployment increases and a large proportion of the jobless labour force tends to seek jobs in the urban informal sector, which creates problems of slums, poverty, and crime in the urban areas. Comprehensive field surveys are generally required to identify the areas which lie in the lower strata of the development ladder and to suggest effective targeting of welfare measures for alleviating poverty.

A Case Study of Rural Development Programmes In India

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farooq Ahmad Ganiee
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Development Effort ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Productive Assets ◽  
Employment Guarantee

The Rural development generally refers to the process of improving the quality of life and economic welfare of people living in relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is considered as a “Silver Bullet” for eradicating rural poverty and unemployment, by way of generating demand for productive labour force in villages. It provides an alternative source of livelihood which will have an impact on reducing migration, restricting child labour, alleviating poverty, and making villages self-sustaining through productive assets creation such as road construction, cleaning up of water tanks, soil and water conservation work, etc. For which it has been considered as the largest anti-poverty programme in India. In this paper, based on the secondary data, an attempt has been made to comprehensively understand the development effort to rebuild the rural life and livelihood on the basis of various secondary data. 

Impact of Elected Women Representatives of Panchayati Raj in Physical and Financial and Business Assets Development of Rural Women: A Study among the Rural Women’s of Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu[1]

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalaichelvi Sivaraman ◽  
Rengasamy Stalin
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Panchayati Raj

This research paper is the part of Research Project entitled “Impact of Elected Women Representatives in the Life and Livelihood of the Women in Rural Areas: With Special Reference to Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu” funded by University of Madras under UGC-UPE Scheme.The 73rd and 74th amendments of the Constitution of India were made by the government to strengthen the position of women and to create a local-level legal foundation for direct democracy for women in both rural and urban areas. The representation for women in local bodies through reservation policies amendment in Constitution of India has stimulated the political participation of women in rural areas. However, when it’s comes to the argument of whether the women reservation in Panchayati Raj helps or benefits to the life and livelihood development of women as a group? The answer is hypothetical because the studies related to the impact of women representatives of Panchayati Raj in the life and livelihood development of women was very less. Therefore, to fill the gap in existing literature, the present study was conducted among the rural women of Tiruvannamalai district to assess the impact of elected women representatives in the physical and financial and business development of the women in rural areas. The findings revealed that during the last five years because of the women representation in their village Panjayati Raj, the Physical Asset of the rural women were increased or developed moderately (55.8%) and Highly (23.4%) and the Financial and Business Asset of the rural women were increased or developed moderately (60.4%) and Highly (18.7%).

scholarly journals There Is No Place like Home! How Willing Are Young Adults to Move to Find a Job?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7494
Author(s):  
Julia Weiss ◽  
Livio Ferrante ◽  
Mariano Soler-Porta
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Job Opportunities

The European Union (EU) has undergone significant economic crises in recent years. Therein, young people were amongst the hardest hit groups, with youth unemployment rising as high as 50% in some member states. Particularly high rates of youth unemployment were often observed in rural areas, where labour market supply in relation to demand were notably divergent. One of the core pillars of the EU’s agenda is to tackle the persistent problem of youth unemployment. Since the recent crisis, this has been via the “Youth on the Move” initiative, which involves the promotion of intra- and international mobility of young adults in order to gain access to job opportunities. However, what has received little attention so far is the question of what the general willingness of young adults to move is like, and to what extent this varies, for example, depending upon the area they live in. This paper therefore asks if rural youth differ from youth in urban areas in relation to their willingness to move for a job within their country or to another country. Moreover, what influences the general willingness to be mobile? Based on the Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship (CUPESSE) Survey, which includes data on 18–35-year-olds in a sample of 11 European countries, it is shown that living in a rural area is strongly associated with the willingness to move. Furthermore, it shows that rural youth are more willing to move within the country but less willing to move to another country. Based on the presentation of the various factors, which promote or curb mobility readiness, the results make it clear that the success of EU initiatives depends on the preferences and willingness of the target group in question.

MGNREGA Implementation in Tamil Nadu: Voices from the fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-137
Author(s):  
Sarabjeet D. Natesan ◽  
Rahul R. Marathe
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Employment Guarantee

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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