scholarly journals Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): A Tool for Employment Generation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-286
Author(s):  
Lamaan Sami ◽  
Anas Khan
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Employment Increase ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Impact

This study is an empirical study which aims to examine the impact of MGNREGA in generating employment to poor in selected districts in India. Data have been collected through personal interview and analyzed with the application of linear regression. The analysis of the data revealed that MGNREGA played a significant role in generating employment, increase in income and consumption of respondents in selected districts in India.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 3, Issue-4: 281-286

scholarly journals COVID -19: INCESSANT LOCKDOWNS IMPACT ON TRIBAL COMMUNITY IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 613-619
Author(s):  
Prof.P.Manjushree ◽  
P.Geetha
Keyword(s):  
Life Forms ◽  
Tribal Community ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Impact

It is a well-documented fact that COVID -19 pandemic is having a ravaging effect across the world, lives, livelihoods, lifestyles, life forms and more have been heavily impacted. To control the spread of pandemic Indian government adopted different approaches like - three weeks lockdown imposing social distancing, closure of non essential and businesses and very high restrictions on the mobility of people. All these measure had repercussions on the economy and severe impact among the tribal communities because of limited resources of livelihood, lack of access to Covid-19 testing and healthcare facilities, disruption of supply chains etc. According to government sources more than 10 crore forest dwellers depend on minor forest produce (MFPs) for earning income to meet their basic expenses. Due to the extensive lock down measures government failed to provide employment to tribal people under schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Yojana (PMVDY). This has triggered an increase in the dependence of the tribal population on the sale of forest produce. Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) should plan more supportive policy measures to reduce the impact of the pandemic on the living conditions of the tribal community.The paper focusses on the first wave of the pandemic and its impact on tribal community. KEY WORDS: COVID -19,lock down, tribal community, impact, minor forest produce(MFPS), ministry of tribal affairs (MoTA), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

scholarly journals Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on Rural Households: A Case Study in Davanagere District of Karnataka

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
N Harish
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Rural Household ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Employment Guarantee

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been playing an important role in employment generation and poverty alleviation in rural India. It was “an Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members’ volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected or incidental thereto”. In this paper, an effort has been made to evaluate the changes in terms of employment level, income level, expenditure pattern, savings pattern, and living standard of the sample beneficiaries in the study area between pre- MGNREGP and post- MGNREGP period; and to offer policy measures to improve the performance of the MGNREG program in generating rural livelihood. The present study is mainly based on primary data collected directly from the selected sample beneficiaries of MGNREGP through personal interviews. Simple statistical tools like averages, ratios, percentages have been employed for the analysis. The main findings reveal that the proportion of employment generation, income generation, average expenditure, and savings, and assets creation were found to be quite significant in the post-MGNREGP period as compared to that of in pre-MGNREGP period in the study areas. Similarly, the MGNREGP has made a positive impact on the living standard of sample beneficiaries in the study areas. Based on the findings, the study suggested that the statutory 100 days of employment per adult member of the rural household should be guaranteed instead of 100 days per rural household. This would help to improve the income level of households who mainly depend on MGNREGP for their livelihood, and the performance of MGNREGP in backward (Jagalur) taluk is low. Therefore the officials should take for effective implementation of the program in the backward areas.

scholarly journals PERFORMANCE OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN KARNATAKA: A SEASONAL WISE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Odegouda R T ◽  
Dr. S. B. Nari
Keyword(s):  
Summer Season ◽  
Rabi Season ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Kharif Season ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Work Distribution ◽  
Average Rainfall ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
Employment Guarantee Scheme

Rural labours are migrating to the urban areas searching for jobs, because of they don’t get jobs in agricultural lean season and Most of the unorganised sector workers are deprived of basic social security measures, like, health, income, employment etc. In this context, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) as a fall-back employment source is designed to make significant difference to livelihood security in rural areas especially rural poor. The study mainly focused on four questions like, does MGNREGS has properly used fund by seasonal wise; to know the seasonal wise household demanded and provided for employment; to know the share of employment generation among social groups and dose MGNREGS has created more persondays in drought affected years in Karnataka. In this context the present study an attempt to the Seasonal Variation of Employment Generation and Utilization of Fund under MGNREGS in Karnataka. The study found that Whereas coefficient of variation is less in summer season it is evidently on an average 83 percent of workers are benefited from employment during the summer and Rabi season. As compared to the all financial years, on an average of women generated Persondays was highest 44.50 percent in summer season followed by 43.64 percent in Rabi, but in Kharif season was least 11.85 percent. Similar in all year’s during summer and Rabi season have highest proportion of hundred days work done, but least proportion in Kharif season. The study mainly efforts on rainy season it means south west monsoon period the proportion of average rainfall was highest (486mm in July 2013), but it is continuously declined to 244mm in July 2017. But not much rainfall in other remaining months. The study suggests that the MGNREGS programme works should be season wise planning and timely work distribution for who have demanded for work and also to concentrate on more agriculture related works and awareness in gross root level. KEYWORDS: MGNREGS, Seasonal wise Employment Generation, Fund Utilization, Average Rainfall and Drought.

scholarly journals A Mirage or a Rural Life Line? Analysing the impact of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act on Women Beneficiaries of Assam

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rituparna Bhattacharyya ◽  
Polly Vauquline
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Government ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Impact

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), launched in February 2006 was renamed in October 02, 2009 as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (henceforth, MGNREGA). It is an anti-poverty flagship programme of the Government of India. The key purpose of MGNREGA is to enhance wage employment in the rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed employment to every household in a financial year.  The MGNREGA implementation status report for the financial year 2012-2013 unfolds that the programme has already provided employment to 44.9 million households across 28 districts and five union territories. Hence, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the impact of MGNREGA on women beneficiaries. A plethora of research argues that MGNREGA, which promotes inclusive growth, is a vehicle of change, a lifeline for rural women. So far, however, there has been very little discussion about the impact of MGNREGA on women beneficiaries of Assam. This research is an attempt to examine the participation of women in MGNREGA, Assam. It critically looks at the issues, problems and challenges confronted by the women while working at MGNREGA. Written from a feminist perspective on gender, poverty and women’s empowerment, the research seeks to address the problems of the women beneficiaries through their lived experiences. For this, we conducted in-depth interviews with the women beneficiaries in the months of August and September, 2009 in four remote areas namely, Burka, Chandrapur, Barbhang and Muguriya, the first two situated in Kamrup, while the third and the fourth in Barpeta districts of Assam, where the programme of MGNREGA is on-going. The findings of the research suggest measures so that the programme can be made more effective in the long run.

Impact of MGNREGA on a Tightened Labour Market

Social Change ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhil Alha
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Rural Employment ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
Employment Guarantee ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exclusive Category

The study discusses the impact of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on an already tightened rural labour market through a field survey conducted in two villages of Rajasthan. The article argues that the impact of the programme in a constricted rural labour market has been marginal because of a low off-take of work because of already developed alternate livelihood strategies which reduced the incentive to work in this programme. Nevertheless, the scheme has been instrumental in two ways: first, it led to the withdrawal of lower caste women from agricultural work which signifies an escape from the exploitative production relations in the two villages under study; and second, it has resulted in the formation of an exclusive category of MGNREGA workers consisting of female workers from the middle castes who were previously were not participating in paid labour.

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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