 MGNREGS: Political Economy, Local Governance and Asset Creation in South IndiaWorking Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number of studies have analysed the progress of employment creation under the scheme, very few have looked into the equally important issue of rural asset creation under the scheme. The scheme is centrally sponsored and the broad guidelines are centrally designed, yet the interpretation and implementation of the scheme is subject to wide regional variation owing to variations in local level governance capacity, governance structure and regional political economy. Evidences based on a primary survey across the four southern states, viz., Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala show that the design of the scheme for asset creation is subject to considerably varied interpretations at the regional and sub-regional levels anchored on the above factors. [Working Paper No. 471]. Keywords: Local Governance; Rural Employment; Political Economy; MGNREGS; asset creation; South India; Andhra Pradesh (erstwhile); Tamil Nadu; Karnataka and Kerala; regional variation; local level governance; regional; India; employment creation; scheme; rural livelihood scheme (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11407 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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