Has Indias Employment Guarantee Program Achieved Intended Targets?
- Title
- Has Indias Employment Guarantee Program Achieved Intended Targets?
- Creator
- Reddy A.A.; Singha Roy N.; Pradeep D.
- Description
- This paper explores the performance of the worlds largest employment guarantee program, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes in India, both nationally and through a sub-national-level comparison based on key performance indicators viz. (i) financial indicators, (ii) physical performance indicators, and (iii) inclusiveness indicators. The paper is based on administrative data taken from the Ministry of Rural Development from 2006 to 2019. Despite sharp increases in fund allocation, total expenditures, and utilization rates, there was deceleration in majority of physical performance indicators after 2016, including total person-days employment and person-days of employment per household, with wide variation in sub-national level implementation capabilities. The finding also rejects the falsity of saturation of MGNREGA work in the rural areas, which is reflected in a strong positive correlation between fund allocation and employment generation. Its broader objective of social safety net for vulnerable people in rural areas shows an achievement, although with some gaps in implementation. JEL classification: H53, J43, P25 The Author(s) 2021.
- Source
- SAGE Open, Vol-11, No. 4
- Date
- 2021-01-01
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Subject
- India; MGNREGA; rural labor; social protection
- Coverage
- Reddy A.A., ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India; Singha Roy N., Christ University, Bengaluru, KA, India; Pradeep D., Christ University, Bengaluru, KA, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 21582440
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Reddy A.A.; Singha Roy N.; Pradeep D., “Has Indias Employment Guarantee Program Achieved Intended Targets?,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/16011.