MGNREGA: what workers really think about the programme’s effectiveness
BCCL
Synopsis
Are there enough jobs under MGNREGA? What do workers have to say about it? By using a unique database, we have tried to find out workers’ response to the programme’s efficacy. We collected 6,580 raw data points from 40 districts, covering a range of 162 gram panchayats. Here’s what we discovered.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest workfare programme in the world with an average annual expenditure of over USD5 billion. And in recent times, the need for expanding the programme has gained prominence.MGNREGA is expected to provide employment opportunities to migrant workers who were displaced by the economic disruption due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Most of these migrant workers belong to the
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The Centre has made record payments to workers enrolled in the MGNREGA scheme in the first eight months of FY21. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a rural employment generation scheme.
The center has already spent Rs 76,800 crore on the scheme from Rs 84,900 crore allocated for the scheme. Total spending on the scheme last year was at Rs 50,000 crore for the same period last year.
During the lockdown, the government focused extensively on the rural sector. Increased MGNEREGA spending is a reflection of that. Now with the resumption in economic activities, migrated workers have started returning to cities. Hence, we believe that work demand under MGNEREGA will reduce sharply from here on.
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The programme has been able to make a positive impact in the lives of around 3,000 tribal women by equipping them with skills in sewing, soft-toy making, clay art, embroidery, among others.
Women working at Sakhi centre in Kushalgarh in Rajasthan. Photo: By arrangement.
Women12/Dec/2020
Jaipur: When Deepa had to move to Kushalgarh, a small sub-divisional township in the southern part of Rajasthan, with her husband, she had little idea that it would alter her life substantially.
Deepa’s husband, Narendra Biswas, who worked as a compounder (without qualification) in West Bengal, had decided to move to Kushalgarh in response to a job offer. Enhanced wages and growth, he had it all at his new workplace. Biswas was leading a decent life until he was rendered jobless overnight as a consequence of the government’s crackdown on quackery.
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The higher demand for MGNREGA work was because of close to 20 million workers returning to their villages from cities after the Central government announced a nation-wide lockdown on March 24. | Latest News India