IMPACT ANALYSIS OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAMME IN DHALAI DISTRICT OF TRIPURA
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2011-02-16
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University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore
Abstract
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was notified on 7th
September 2005 and implemented in 200 districts of the country during the year
2006-2007 and was extended to additional 130 districts in 2007-2008. It was
renamed as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) on 2nd October, 2009. A total of 615 districts in the country are covered
under MGNREGA till 2010-2011. The basic objective of the Act is to enhance
livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage
employment in a financial year to every household creating rural assets for the
sustainable development of an agricultural and natural resource based economy. The
study was conducted in Dhalai district of Tripura state during 2010-2011. Dhalai
district was purposively selected for the study because MGNREGA programme was
firstly implemented during 2006-2007 in Tripura. Totally, 150 beneficiaries were
randomly selected from three villages of Kulai Gram Panchayat in Ambassa block of
Dhalai district. It was found that 50 per cent of the respondents had favourable
attitude towards MGNREGA programme. On the contrary, 36 and 14 per cent of the
respondents had neutral and unfavourable attitude towards MGNREGA programme,
respectively. The overall mean value of standard of living before MGNREGA was
found to be 36.55 as compared to 60.16 after the implementation of MGNREGA
programme indicating an increase of 65 per cent after the implementation of the
MGNREGA programme. Out of different dimensions of standard of living, the
employment generation increased by 168 per cent followed by annual income (149%),
food consumption pattern (116%), investment on social function(96%), investment on
savings (91%) and investment on assets (86%). The most important problems faced
by the MGNREGA beneficiaries were providing employment of hundred days was
too less (72%) in the present situation followed by lack of medical facilities (70%),
delayed wage payment (69%).
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