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- Inequality among Districts of West Bengal in Implementing Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005
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1 Maharani Kasiswari College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), West Bengal, IN
1 Maharani Kasiswari College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Rural and Industrial Development, Vol 4, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 18-26Abstract
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005, later renamed as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), was enacted in the parliament to provide employment opportunities to the rural people of India. 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 West Bengal Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (WBREGS) came into force from February, 2006. In the present study, an attempt has been taken to review the performance of the scheme implemented in different districts of West Bengal and also to measure the inequality among the districts in implementing the scheme.Five parameters have been used to measure the performance of the districts, namely, percentage of households provided employment to the households demanded employment, percentage of households completed 100 days of employment, average person days of employment provided per household, percentage of women person days to total person days and average wage disbursed per person day. To calculate the inequality among the districts in performing the same, coefficient of variation and Ginni's coefficient have been used. Kendall's coefficient of concordance has also been used to test the propriety of the ranks obtained by different districts on the basis of different parameters.Keywords
Employment, Person Days, Performance, Development.
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- The Role of the MGNREGS in Providing Employment Opportunities to the SCs and The STs:A Cross-State Analysis
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1 Department of Commerce, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, IN
1 Department of Commerce, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, IN
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Journal of Rural and Industrial Development, Vol 6, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 1-14Abstract
Poverty and unemployment are relatively higher among the Scheduled Casts (SCs) and the Scheduled Tribes (STs) than that in other communities in India, especially in rural areas. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, was introduced in India to create employment opportunities for the rural people. The present study measures the performance of the states in spreading the benefits of the scheme among the SCs and the STs of the rural areas. Ranks have been assigned to the states based on their performance as measured by the four selected parameters. Inequality among the states in carrying out the scheme has also been measured. Further, correlations between performance scores of the states and SC/ST poverty rates of the states, and performance scores of the states and SC/ ST literacy rates of the states have been computed, respectively.Keywords
Employment, Person Days, Inequality, Poverty, Literacy.References
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