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Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda

Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda has been established as a full-fledged State University, having unique honour of being the “First Agricultural University of Bundelkhand Region”. The University was notified vide Government Order No. 301/79-V-1-10-1 (Ka) 27-2009 Lucknow and established on 2nd March 2010 under Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) 1958 Gazette-Adhiniyam 2010. Initially it was named as “Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda”, which was changed as “Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda” vide Uttar Pradesh Agriculture University Act (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2014, No. 1528(2)/LXXIX-V-1-14-1(Ka)-13-2014 dated 4th December 2014. The University has been established for the development of the agriculture and allied sectors in the Uttar Pradesh on the whole and Bundelkhand region in particular. It is committed to serve the Bundelkhand region with trinity concept, i.e. complete integration of teaching, research and extension for the development of agriculture and allied sectors in order to ensure food security and enhance socio-economic status of inhabitants. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has assigned the University with the responsibilities of (a) human resource generation and development, (b) generation and perfection of technologies, and (c) their dissemination to the farmers, orchardists and dairy farmers in the Chitrakoot Dham and Jhansi divisions. The Chirtrkoot Dham Division consists of four districts, namely Banda, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Mahoba and Hamirpur whereas Jhansi Division consists of Jhansi, Lalitpur and Jalaun (Orai) districts.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: KUMAR, MANOJ × End date: 2023 ×
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    A Study on Impact of MGNREGS in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh
    (Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda-210001, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2021-10-10) KUMAR, MANOJ; Mishra, Bhanu Prakash
    The study was carried out to study the impact of MGNREGS in Banda District of Bundelkhand Region, Uttar Pradesh. The relevant data was collected during 2020-21 through personal interview method using structured research schedule. Simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study with Ex-post Facto research design. District Banda falls under Bundelkhand agro climatic zone of Uttar Pradesh. From Badokhar Khurd block, five villages were selected randomly namely Mawai bujurg, Kanwara, Lama, Mahokhar and Luktara and 20 respondents were randomly, a total of 100 respondents were selected for the study. The study reveals that majority of respondents were belonged to middle age group within the range of 37-56 years and were having low level of education. It was found that maximum of respondent have medium to large family size and have 7-9 years of experience in working under MGNREGS with him medium annual income. It was found that majority of MGNREGS were male (78%) with low social participation and medium source of information. It was observed that majority (76%) of respondents own the mobile phone and (18%) of have television and none of them have computer and radio, etc. it was found that majority of respondents have high economic motivation with medium level of aspiration and achievement motivation.It was found that majority of respondents have high (47%) to medium knowledge level (39%). It was revealed that majority of respondents belonged to more direct change and there was a significant difference in the employment generation and number of persons employed in their family of the respondents after the implementation of MGNREGS. The study revealed that there is a significance difference in the daily working hours, daily wage rates, income generation and community asset creation of selected respondents after MGNREGS. It was also observed that migration was decreased and wages upon migration increased due to MGNREGS implementation. The study assessed that there was a positive and highly significant relationship between age, education, experience and number of years benefited, annual income, mass media assets, socio-political participation, sources of information, economic motivation, achievement motivation and their knowledge level. Regression analysis indicated that all the twelve variables put together explained 63 per cent of variance in the extent of knowledge of respondents. Also, the study assessed that there was a positive and significant relationship between age, education, experience and number of years benefited, annual income, mass media assets, socio politico participation, sources of information, level of aspiration and achievement motivation with direct changes. Regression analysis indicated that all the twelve variables put together explained 60.1 per cent of variance in the direct changes experienced by respondents. The study reveal that problem perceived by the respondents was non-payment of unemployment allowance, Non-payment of 10% extra wages for outsides the 5 KM. radius, nonprovision of crèche facility and payment of same wages for all kind of works.