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The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on 12th June 1964 at Hyderabad. The University was formally inaugurated on 20th March 1965 by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi,the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India on 23rd June 1966. The University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7th November 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter. HISTORICAL MILESTONE Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honour and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga. At the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication. Genesis of ANGRAU in service of the farmers 1926: The Royal Commission emphasized the need for a strong research base for agricultural development in the country... 1949: The Radhakrishnan Commission (1949) on University Education led to the establishment of Rural Universities for the overall development of agriculture and rural life in the country... 1955: First Joint Indo-American Team studied the status and future needs of agricultural education in the country... 1960: Second Joint Indo-American Team (1960) headed by Dr. M. S. Randhawa, the then Vice-President of Indian Council of Agricultural Research recommended specifically the establishment of Farm Universities and spelt out the basic objectives of these Universities as Institutional Autonomy, inclusion of Agriculture, Veterinary / Animal Husbandry and Home Science, Integration of Teaching, Research and Extension... 1963: The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) Act enacted... June 12th 1964: Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established at Hyderabad with Shri. O. Pulla Reddi, I.C.S. (Retired) was the first founder Vice-Chancellor of the University... June 1964: Re-affilitation of Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (estt. in 1945, affiliated to Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College, Tirupati and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University)... 20th March 1965: Formal inauguration of APAU by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... 1964-66: The report of the Second National Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, Chairman of the University Grants Commission stressed the need for establishing at least one Agricultural University in each Indian State... 23, June 1966: Inauguration of the Administrative building of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... July, 1966: Transfer of 41 Agricultural Research Stations, functioning under the Department of Agriculture... May, 1967: Transfer of Four Research Stations of the Animal Husbandry Department... 7th November 1996: Renaming of University as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga... 15th July 2005: Establishment of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) bifurcating ANGRAU by Act 18 of 2005... 26th June 2007: Establishment of Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University (APHU) bifurcating ANGRAU by the Act 30 of 2007... 2nd June 2014 As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014, ANGRAU is now... serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication...

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: HANUMANTHA, K × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME (MGNREGS) IN ANANTHAPURAMU DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2016) HANUMANTHA, K; Dr. V. SAILAJA
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) aims at enhancing the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to a household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified on 7th September, 2005. The Act came into force on February, 2006 and was implemented in a phased manner. In phase-I, it was introduced in 200 most backward districts of the country on 2nd February, 2006 and implemented in additional 130 districts in phase-II on 1st April, 2007. To bring the whole nation under its safety net and keeping in view of the demand the Act was extended to the remaining 285 districts of India on 1st April, 2008 in phase-III. An ex-post facto research design was followed to study the impact of MGNREGS in Ananthapuramu district of Andhra Pradesh. The study was conducted in Andhra Pradesh state during 2015-16. Ananthapuramu district of Andhra Pradesh was purposively selected based on criteria of maximum employment generation in Rayalaseema region. Out of 63 mandals of Ananthapuramu district, three mandals were selected purposively based on the criteria of maximum employment generation. From the list of villages in each mandal, four villages were selected thus making total 12 villages, based on the criteria of maximum employment generation. From each selected village 10 respondents were selected by following the simple random sampling, thus making a total of 120 respondents constituted the sample of the study. Data was collected by pre-testing followed by personal interview method. For the purpose of statistical analysis of the coded data, various tools were used; Frequency (F), Percentage (%), paired‘t’ test, Arithmetic Mean ( ), Standard Deviation (σ), Correlation coefficient (r) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). The detailed analysis of profile characteristics indicated that majority of the MGNREGS beneficiaries belonged to the categories of middle aged (65.00%), male (61.70%), illiterate (50.00%), medium size of the family (62.50%), agriculture (68.30%), other backward caste (48.30%), medium annual income category (48.33%), with 7 to 9 years of benefit (53.30%), medium socio-politico participation (94.17%), medium sources of information (65.00%), medium economic motivation (69.00%), medium achievement motivation (68.00%), medium risk orientation (74.14%) and medium level of aspiration (86.67%). The detailed analysis of the dependent variables indicated that the majority (79.16 %) of the respondents had moderate favourable attitude, where in 13.33 per cent had unfavourable attitude and 7.50 per cent highly favourable attitude. Majority (70.00%) of MGNREGS beneficiaries belonged to medium direct changes category followed by more (17.50%) and less (12.50%) direct changes categories. Direct changes occurred due to the implementation of MGNREGS were increase in the total number of man days in an year from 169.41 days/ year to 278.83 days/ year, increase in the mean value of number of employed persons in the family from 1.73 persons to 2.44 persons, reduction in the mean daily working hours from 8.79 hours to 7.24 hours, increase in the mean daily wage rates from Rs.66.53/ day to Rs.144.95/day, increase in the mean income level from Rs.29188.33/year to Rs.45950/year, increase in the overall community assets up to 91.39 percent, increase in the overall development of works on individual land holding up to 75.62 percent and reduction in the mean days of migration from 99.16 days/year to 22.25 days/ year. About 67.50 percent of MGNREGS beneficiaries experienced medium indirect changes followed by more (20.00%) and less (12.50%) indirect changes. Due the implementation of MGNREGS, the beneficiaries experienced medium (73.33%) level of empowerment, medium (75.83%) personal and family security, increase in the food consumption level with a mean difference of 7.75 Kg/ week, increase in the conservation of natural resources and strengthening democracy. Out of the fourteen selected independent variables five of the variables viz., education, size of family, socio-politico participation, sources of information and achievement motivation showed significant relation with the attitude of the MGNREGS beneficiaries. Remaining variables like age, gender, occupation, caste, annual income, number of years benefited economic motivation, risk orientation and level of aspiration did not showed any significant relation with the attitude of the beneficiaries. The Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis indicated that all the fourteen variables put together explained 69.20 per cent of variance in the attitude of MGNREGS beneficiaries, remaining 30.80 per cent due to the extraneous factors. Out of the fourteen selected independent variables seven of the variables namely education, size of the family, occupation, annual income, risk orientation, achievement motivation and level of aspiration showed the significant relation with the direct changes of MGNREGS beneficiaries. Remaining variables like age, gender, caste, number of years benefited, socio-politico participation, sources of information and economic motivation did not show any significant relationship with the direct changes experienced by the MGNREGS beneficiaries. The Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis indicated that all the fourteen variables put together explained 57.80 per cent of variance in the direct changes experienced by the MGNREGS beneficiaries, remaining 42.20 per cent due to the extraneous factors. Out of the fourteen selected independent variables five of the variables namely education, annual income, number of years benefitted, socio-politico participation and achievement motivation showed significant relation with the indirect changes of the MGNREGS beneficiaries. Remaining variables like age, gender, size of the family, occupation, caste, sources of information, risk orientation, economic motivation and level of aspiration did not show any significant relationship with the indirect changes. The Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis indicated that all the fourteen variables put together explained 73.60 per cent of variance in the indirect changes experienced by the MGNREGS beneficiaries, remaining 26.40 per cent due to the extraneous factors. The various constraints faced by the selected MGNREGS beneficiaries were ‘late payment of wages’, ‘no scope to get employment more than 150 days’, ‘nonprovision of 150 days’, ‘non availability of regular work’, ‘poor work site facilities’, ‘distances of work site’, ‘non-payment of wages in the form of grains’, ‘low payment of wages’, ‘no special provision for elderly persons’, ‘delay in disposal of beneficiaries complaints’, ‘migration of laborers due to non-provision of works under MGNREGS’, ‘non- payment of unemployment allowance’, ‘no provision for skilled or semi-skilled works in MGNREGS’ and ‘provision of employment during agricultural seasons’. The suggestions given by the selected MGNREGS beneficiaries for the effective implementation of the scheme were ‘timely payment of wages’, ‘extending the limit of 150 days employment’, ‘fulfillment of 150 days of employment’, ‘payment of wages in the form of grains’, ‘timely allotment of works’, ‘provision of necessary work site facilities’, ‘provision of sufficient employment near by the village’, ‘timely payment of unemployment allowance’, ‘special provisions for elderly persons’, ‘timely solution to the beneficiaries complaints’, ‘provision of employment during off-season’ and ‘provision of employment for skilled and semiskilled workers’. Based on the constraints faced and suggestions given by the beneficiaries a suitable strategy was formulated for the effective functioning of MGNREGS.