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Right to work and rural India [electronic resource] : working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) / edited by Ashok K. Pankaj.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
- India.
- Basic income--India.
- Basic income.
- Job security--India.
- Job security.
- Manpower policy, Rural--India.
- Manpower policy, Rural.
- Right to labor--India.
- Right to labor.
- Rural poor--Employment--India.
- Rural poor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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 throughEmployment 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1710-7
- 1-283-93991-6
- 81-321-1105-2
- OCLC:
- 826854531
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