Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) As Right to Employment : Assessment of Impact and Effectiveness
Contents: Introduction. 1. The national rural employment guarantee scheme (MNREGA): some reflections on opportunities and challenges/Sib Ranjan Misra. 2. MGNREGA: a virtuous social protection/Narayan Chandra Pradhan and Ramesh Golait. 3. Economic policy of public work programme: a case study from India/Ramu Maurya and Shraddha Pal. 4. Women empowerment and poverty eradication in India: a critical appraisal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)/Shiva Kumar Lal and Abhishek Srivastava. 5. Employment generation and poverty alleviation through MNREGA/Janardan Prasad and Suresh Kumar. 6. Evaluating national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS)/Sameer Kumar Tripathy. 7. National rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS): an evaluation/S.N. Tripathy. 8. Impacts of MGNREGS on household in drought prone areas: a study of two villages in Odisha/Basanta K. Sahu. 9. Implementation of national rural employment guarantee scheme (MNREGS): an evaluation/Sumita Tripathy. 10. Right to employment and employment guarantee in Maharashtra (with reference to NREGA)/Kailas C. Thaware. 11. Achievements of employment guarantee scheme of Maharashtra/Dattatray Bagade. 12. National rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) in Maharashtra: an outlook/S.H. Kokare. 13. Employment oriented development strategy: can NREGA fulfill its promises?/Sunil Sangwan. 14. NREGA: basic components and comparative study of seven districts of Saurashtra (Gujarat)/Dhiren Vandra. 15. Converging NREGA with aquaculture in West Bengal: issues and concerns/Jaydev Misra.
The present volume embodies research work of selected researchers on the evaluation of implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) now being implemented in all the rural districts of India. The act seeks to promote inclusive growth. The primary objective of the act is augmenting wage employment. Experiences of implementation of the programme demonstrate that the results have been mixed. The contributing scholars have identified the causes of limited success of the programme in different parts of India. The researchers have made practical suggestions for better implementation of the programme. Though most of the contributors have dealt with empirical issues, some researchers have dealt with theoretical issues on the subject. It is expected that the book will be useful to the concerned researchers, academicians and the policy makers. (jacket)
The present volume embodies research work of selected researchers on the evaluation of implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) now being implemented in all the rural districts of India. The act seeks to promote inclusive growth. The primary objective of the act is augmenting wage employment. Experiences of implementation of the programme demonstrate that the results have been mixed. The contributing scholars have identified the causes of limited success of the programme in different parts of India. The researchers have made practical suggestions for better implementation of the programme. Though most of the contributors have dealt with empirical issues, some researchers have dealt with theoretical issues on the subject. It is expected that the book will be useful to the concerned researchers, academicians and the policy makers. (jacket)
