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MGNREGA and its Impact on Women Employment - Some Insights from Review of Literature


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1 University Department of Economics, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India
 

Employment generation has been an aim of every government worldwide. There has been a plethora of well-thought out programmes to target the rural poor in India since Independence. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been the flagship programme of the Government of India, with the key objective of poverty alleviation, employment generation and rural employment. MGNREGA, with the revolutionary ideas of providing guaranteed employment, has been considered to have a ground breaking impact on rural poverty and unemployment. This programme has been widely studied, universally accepted, subjected to formidable criticism and fraught with ground level rigidities. This article highlights the different aspects of MGNREGA as studied by different researchers, scholars and government agencies.

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MGNREGA, Women Employment, Rural, Impact.
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Jhumur Samaddar
University Department of Economics, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India

Abstract


Employment generation has been an aim of every government worldwide. There has been a plethora of well-thought out programmes to target the rural poor in India since Independence. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been the flagship programme of the Government of India, with the key objective of poverty alleviation, employment generation and rural employment. MGNREGA, with the revolutionary ideas of providing guaranteed employment, has been considered to have a ground breaking impact on rural poverty and unemployment. This programme has been widely studied, universally accepted, subjected to formidable criticism and fraught with ground level rigidities. This article highlights the different aspects of MGNREGA as studied by different researchers, scholars and government agencies.

Keywords


MGNREGA, Women Employment, Rural, Impact.

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