Coupling a ladder to the safety net: reinventing MGNREGA for asset creation

Sandeep Tambe, Nima Tashi Bhutia, Sarika Pradhan and Jigme Basi

Development in Practice, 2019, vol. 29, issue 4, 514-524

Abstract: India’s rural employment act (MGNREGA), the world’s largest public works programme, is designed to guarantee wage employment as a statutory right. It is viewed by many as a drain on the public exchequer, as wages are paid but durable assets are not created. Can this safety net be restructured to double up as a ladder of opportunity for the poor without altering its entitlement-based framework? This article shows that implementing four sets of interventions – policy for household livelihood assets, convergence approaches, pro-poor participatory planning, and strengthening accountability, can accelerate the creation of livelihood assets in the lands of the poor.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2019.1567687

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