Mapping the performance levels of Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme in Jammu and Kashmir

Ferooz Ahmad Hajam (), Shahbaz Rashid () and Javeed Ahmad Rather ()
Additional contact information
Ferooz Ahmad Hajam: University of Kashmir, Department of Geography and Disaster Management
Shahbaz Rashid: University of Kashmir, Department of Geography and Disaster Management
Javeed Ahmad Rather: University of Kashmir, Department of Geography and Disaster Management

Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2025, vol. 27, issue 3, No 15, 1039-1060

Abstract: Abstract The study delves into the time-based and spatial aspects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Jammu and Kashmir using secondary sources of data. The main focus of the study is to map out the regional discrepancies in the performance of MGNREGS at the inter-district level and to identify the underlying determinants responsible for the high and low performance of various districts. The United Nations Development Program’s methodology (UNDP’s) was used to develop the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Performance Index (MGNREPI). Based on MGNREPI scores, the districts were ranked accordingly, and the levels of performance were identified. The results revealed the variation in terms of performance at both the divisional and district levels with the Kashmir division outperforming the Jammu division. The district-level analysis reveals that Kishtwar, Anantnag, and Doda are among the high-performing districts, whereas Budgam, Samba, Srinagar, Jammu, and Udhampur are the poorly performing districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The study identified several factors affecting regional performance including low wage rates, delayed payments, rural to urban migration, socioeconomic development, fund availability, and fund utilization. The study calls for policy intervention in terms of institutional reforms to pinpoint the loopholes of the program and reform the administrative procedures in the districts that are lagging behind so that variations in the regional performance can be addressed.

Keywords: Regional disparity; Performance scores; Jammu and Kashmir; Socioeconomic; MGNREGS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40847-025-00465-6 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

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:spr:jsecdv:v:27:y:2025:i:3:d:10.1007_s40847-025-00465-6

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/40847

DOI: 10.1007/s40847-025-00465-6

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Social and Economic Development is currently edited by M.G. Chandrakanth, D. Rajasekhar, Anand Inbanathan and S. Madheswaran

More articles in Journal of Social and Economic Development from Springer, Institute for Social and Economic Change
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().