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Author Pankaj, Ashok K

Title Right to Work and Rural India : Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
Published New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Section I: Introduction; 1 -- Guaranteeing Right to Work in Rural India: Context, Issues and Policies; Section II: MGNREGS: Alleviating Poverty through Employment Generation; 2 -- MGNREGS: A Component of Full-employment Strategy for India; 3 -- Interpreting the Right to Work: What Relevance for Poverty Reduction?; 4 -- Which Way to Reduce Poverty: Cash Transfers or Employment Guarantee Scheme?; Section III: Working of the MGNREGS: Regional Variations in Implementation and Impact
5 -- Demand and Delivery Gap: A Case for Strengthening Grass-roots Institutions in Bihar and Jharkhand6 -- Working of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Some Grass-roots Experiences; 7 -- MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh: Examining the Role of State-enabled Institutions; 8 -- Employment Guarantee Scheme in Punjab: A Case Study of Hoshiarpur District; Section IV: MGNREGS and Agents of Rural Transformation; 9 -- Assets Creation and Local Economy under MGNREGS: Scope and Challenges; 10 -- MGNREGS and its Effects on Agriculture: Exploring Linkages
11 -- MGNREGS and Indian Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges12 -- Empowerment Effects of the MGNREGS on Women Workers; Section V: Prospects; 13 -- Overcoming the Governance Challenges of Implementing MGNREGA?: Insight from Bihar Using Process-Influence-Mapping; 14 -- MGNREGA and Rural Governance Reform: Growth with Inclusion through Panchayats; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
Summary This comprehensive book is an attempt to understand the working of the operational part of this act-the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MGNREGS), offering an insight into the changing thrust of India's anti-poverty programme
Notes Print version record
Subject India. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
SUBJECT National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (India) fast
Subject Manpower policy, Rural -- India
Basic income -- India
Job security -- India
Right to labor -- India
Rural poor -- Employment -- India
Basic income
Job security
Manpower policy, Rural
Right to labor
Rural poor -- Employment
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788132111054
8132111052