The key findings of the report entitled MGNREGA: Performance, Initiatives and Strategies (FY 2015-16 and FY 2016-17) are as follows (please click here to access the report): • In the financial year 2015-16, 235.6 crore person days of wage employment was generated (against labour budget for 239.1 crore person days of employment), which was the highest in the last 5…
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According to the World Bank report entitled India Development Update: Towards a Higher Growth Path, published in April 2015 (please click here to access): • With over 50 million beneficiary households, and expenditures between 0.5 and 1% of GDP, MGNREGA is amongst the largest anti-poverty programmes in the world. • Analysis of household survey data from Bihar shows that…
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The key findings of the NSS 68th Round Report: Employment and Unemployment Situation among Social Groups in India (released in January 2015) pertaining to the participation of rural households in MGNREGA works are as follows (please click here to download the report): (i) Households with MGNREG job cards and registration of persons in MGNREG job cards • About 38.4%…
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Please click here to access the papers under the research project titled Impact Evaluation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. The study is a collaborative effort of researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, D.C., Cornell University, Ithaca and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and funded by…
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The first performance audit was undertaken by the CAG in 2007-08. The period of coverage of the first audit was February 2006 to March 2007. The present performance audit of the implementation of MGNREGA was taken up in response to a request from the Ministry of Rural Development and covers the period from April 2007…
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According to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act (MGNREGA) and Empowerment of Women in Rural Areas by Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women (2011-12), Fourteenth Report, Lok Sabha Secretariat, May, 2012, http://www.im4change.org/docs/692mgnrega_report.pdf: NREGS and Women Empowerment • Percentage share of employment availed by women under MGNREGS was 40% during 2006-07, 43% in 2007-08, 48% in 2008-09,…
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According to MGNREGA Sameeksha: An Anthology of Research Studies on the MGNREGA 2006-2012, Ministry of Rural Development, http://www.im4change.org/docs/63503975mgnrega_sameeksha.pdf: • Total number of households provided employment stood at 2.1 crore in financial year (FY) 2006-07, 3.4 crore in FY 2007-08, 4.5 crore in FY 2008-09, 5.3 crore in FY 2009-10, 5.5 crore in FY 2010-11 and 5 crore…
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According to Progress in providing employment for the poor: The national public works programme in India (2010) by Rebecca Holmes, Jenny Morgan and Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Overseas Development Institute, http://www.developmentprogress.org/sites/default/files/india_report_-_master.pdf: • MGNREGA’s participatory approach is supported by a three-tiered system of governance called the Panchayati Raj system. • Registration for MGNREGA is undertaken at the lowest tier of…
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The Performance Audit of the implementation of NREGA by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, cag.gov.in/html/reports/civil/2008_PA11_nregacivil/Exe-sum.pdf show: • A Performance Audit of the implementation of NREGA in the initially notified 200 districts was taken up during May–September 2007, in response to a request from the Ministry of Rural Development, so as to provide assurance that the processes…
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