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H. S. Gupta , K. K. Tripathy

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A very simple method of finding growing stock and MAI have been described in this paper. Efforts have been to avoid all complications and difficulties normally arising in their practical assessment.

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K. K. Tripathy ¹

Affiliations
1 Room No. 323, Ministry of Agriculture, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, IN

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Generation of employment opportunities for the growing labour force in India has been a matter of concern for India's planners. The limited impact of trickle-down theory and Harrod-Domar approach to development has pressed the Government of India to structure, implement and restructure various poverty alleviation and employment generation programmes from time to time. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a restructured wage employment programme, was initially implemented in 200 selected backward districts in India since February 2, 2006 and was extended in two phases to all over India ensuring legal rights to at least 100 days' unskilled wage employment to the unemployed rural poor. The objective of this paper is to assess the importance of MGNREGA and to study how the programme has been administered since its notification. Besides assessing various provisions made in MGNREGA, this paper analyses secondary data on the implementation of the programme in selected major States with a view to addressing the following research issues:

a) What are the emerging issues in India's labour market and is there any need to implement a right based wage employment programme in India?

b) What is the trend/pattern in the utilisation of resources?

c) What has been the outcome of the large investment under MGNREGA and what is the way ahead for improving the implementation of the Act to make it more attractive and inclusive?

The concepts of MGNREGA are novel and innovative though the programme continues to suffer from the age-old operational and functional rigidities, like its predecessors. MGNREGA's successful implementation not only requires active involvement of the people along with an able, transparent and responsive administration, but also a synchronised approach to converge the benefits of this employment generating and infrastructure-building initiative with various other development oriented schemes already in operation in rural areas.

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K. K. Tripathy , Sudhir K. Jain

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This paper, drawing upon a primary research conducted in 2006-07 in two districts each of Haryana and Orissa States, assesses the governance issues in the operations of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in rural India. Varimax analysis of the performance parameters identifies the underlying factors which have an impact on the governance of SHGs, and the performance of micro-finance ventures. The main problem areas are found to be low financial base due to the absence of appropriate credit linkages, non-provision of socioeconomic incentives to members, and the lack of group commitment to task accomplishment. The results underline the need for an integrated approach to programme governance in rural areas. The paper concludes with policy lessons which can help in improving the implementation of rural self-employment programmes.

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Basanta K. Sahu ¹, K. K. Tripathy ²

Affiliations
1 Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, IN
2 State Plan Division, Planning Commission, IN

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Despite a mere 17.5% contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Indian agriculture still provides livelihood support to about two-thirds of the country's population. The country has taken notable strides in the agricultural sector during the last four and a half decades of economic planning where the contours of Indian agriculture started showing improvement gradually after the mid-1960s with the introduction of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) of crops. The subsequent emphasis on the development of agricultural infrastructure for the supply of agro-inputs like irrigation, power, water, seed, credit and fertilisers, creation of storage and marketing facilities and provision of adequate and fair distribution of food-grains, however, could not give an appropriate boost to the growth of agricultural productivity.

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