MGNREGS in Jharkhand

Prakash Chandra Deogharia ()
Additional contact information
Prakash Chandra Deogharia: Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Postal: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand

Journal of Regional Development and Planning, 2014, vol. 3, issue 1, 77-86

Abstract: Employment guarantee programs have often been used by developing countries to ensure livelihood of the poorer sections of the society without recourse to physical or human capital. India started the world’s largest such program in 2005 in the form of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the background of jobless growth during most part of the nineties, stagnation or even decline in agricultural productivity, and increased migration of poor people from rural to urban areas. The scheme was devised as a public work programme with a rights based approach to development, providing income security through guaranteed wage employment. Present paper analyses the Indian experience by examining the working of the scheme in a lagging region, where supposedly the scheme should be both necessary and beneficial.

Keywords: Labour; Social Security; Employment Guarantee; India; Government Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E24 E64 H53 H55 I38 J08 R10 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jrdp.in/archive/3_1_persp1.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:jrdpin:0027

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Regional Development and Planning is currently edited by Rajarshi Majumder

More articles in Journal of Regional Development and Planning from Rajarshi Majumder Journal of Regional Development and Planning, c/o Rajarshi Majumder, University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan, INDIA - 713104.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Rajarshi Majumder ().