The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as a Safety Net in Birbhum, West Bengal

Sk, Dey; Bedi, Arjun S.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1620457

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“…Dey and Bedi [18], study on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Birbhum. In this study, many questions were posed to the respondents.…”

Section: Govt Of India [12]mentioning

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Reviewing MGNREGA: The Cheering Method of Poverty Reduction

Am¹,

Ab²

2017

J Glob Econ

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It is hard to think development of a nation without the development of rural economy, neglecting of rural means neglecting of overall development. The real development of India lies in the economic betterment of rural people for which government needs to make strong economic policies and better implementing strategies. MGNREGA is the scheme with lot of alacrity, zeal and potential to boost economy and social transformation of lives at large. Further MGNREGA acts as an engine to achieve the goal of inclusive growth where sustainable developmental parameters are the yardstick to measure development. In this paper we have analysed the Indian perspective of rural development, joblessness of poor, and the socio-economic conditions of rural people through reviewing of previous work. Furthermore, in this paper it is also explained how MGNREGA can be made a cheering scheme and more effective. At last some important suggestions have been proposed to make this scheme more powerful, fruitful and valuable.

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“…Dey and Bedi [18], study on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Birbhum. In this study, many questions were posed to the respondents.…”

Section: Govt Of India [12]mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviewing MGNREGA: The Cheering Method of Poverty Reduction

Am¹,

Ab²

2017

J Glob Econ

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“…Cloud Computing based parallel processing do the works of thousands of computers and other devices by few machines and thus it minimizes the use of other computers and hence indirectly helps to maintain a clean environment. The less use of computers and machines leads to low degradation of the environment [10][11]6]. Also, manufacture and use of these large number computers affect the society as these products have several harmful chemicals and thus shifting to cloud computing based new technology system in MGNREGA project indirectly helps in the betterment of the society through its indirect environmental benefits too.…”

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Cloud, Big-Data and Human Centered Computing towards better Information and Technological Solution in MGNREGA: An Existing and Possible Overview

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Aithal

Bhuimali

2017

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“…The scheme, addressed especially to the problem of galloping rural unemployment, commands a leadership in amelioration of poverty and unemployment in the post-independent era (Dey and Bedi, 2010). The underlying objective of the scheme is to ensure livelihood security of the rural people by providing at least 100 days guaranteed wage employment to every rural household in a financial year whose adult member volunteers to do unskilled manual labour at a statutory minimum wage.…”

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“…To improve the socioeconomic conditions of people, Government of India launched some schemes as to surmount the problem of poverty. Poverty alleviation programmes comprising of wage employment programmes, rural housing schemes and a public distribution system have been initiated from time to time (Dey and Bedi, 2010). Some were moderately successful in addressing the issue of poverty whereas others suffered from major flaws in their implementation.…”

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MGNREGA for inclusive development in India: an analysis

Nazeer¹

2015

Span j rural dev

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Short title: MGNREGA is it inclusive?The rural development strategies in India made remarkable achievements in the long saga of social and economic welfare of people living in rural India. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is considered as a vibrating force for eradicating rural poverty and unemployment, by way of generating demand for productive labour force in villages. It provides an alternative source of livelihood which will have an impact on reducing migration, alleviating poverty, and making villages selfsustaining through productive assets creation such as road construction, soil and water conservation, etc. For which, it has been considered as the largest anti-poverty programme in India. In this paper, an attempt has been made to comprehensively understand the livelihood strategies though rural employment generation. The researcher used qualitative research methodologies to obtain information pertaining to the study through the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). The study revealed that MGNREGAS generating demand for productive labour force in Indian villages. It provides an alternative source of livelihood which will have an impact on, alleviating poverty, and making villages self-sustaining through productive assets creation under social and physical infrastructure facilities. The study also found that there is a much scope for inclusive development of the social groups. To sum up, it is observed that, the scheme played a vibrant role as a safety net for the unemployed youths in the study area.

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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as a Safety Net in Birbhum, West Bengal

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

Reviewing MGNREGA: The Cheering Method of Poverty Reduction

Reviewing MGNREGA: The Cheering Method of Poverty Reduction

Cloud, Big-Data and Human Centered Computing towards better Information and Technological Solution in MGNREGA: An Existing and Possible Overview

MGNREGA for inclusive development in India: an analysis

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