Dr. Minakshi Duarah
Volume-XI, Issue-III, April 2023
Volume-XI, Issue-III, April 2023 | ||
Published Online: 30.04.2023 | Page No: 119-127 | |||
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Assam: Certain issues of the Scheme Dr. Minakshi Duarah, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Eastern Karbi Anglong College, Assam, India | |
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a
revolutionary Programme of the Government of India to reduce rural poverty, generate
rural employment and create durable assets. Its main aim is to provide at least 100 days of
guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every adult rural household who want
to do unskilled manual work. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Programme was notified on 23rd August 2005 and came into effect on 7
September 2007 and it was implemented from 2nd February 2006 in three phases, 1st phase
from 2006, covering 200 districts, 2nd phase covered 130 districts and the 3rd phase
started from 2008. In Assam MGNREGS was introduced 2008. The main objective of the
paper is to study performance of MGNREGS in Assam. The study is mainly based on
secondary data collected from nrega websites. | |
Keywords: Asset creation, employment generation etc. |