Year: 2015 | Month: February | Volume 60 | Issue 1
Income and employment generation through MGNREG scheme in Haryana
Rakesh Kumar
Ravinder Kumar
S. K. Goyal
K. S. Suhag
DOI:10.5958/0976-4666.2015.00010.8
Abstract:
The present study was conducted in Mahendragarh district of Haryana state. All the five blocks were taken from the selected district and from each block two villages were randomly selected totaling 10 villages. Ten MGNREGS job card holders were randomly selected from each selected village. Thus, the total sample consisted of 100 respondents. Most of the job cards were applied and issued during 2006-07 followed by the year 2010-11 in all the blocks. The proportion of persons doing actual work to the total job cards issued was very low in almost all the selected blocks. Majority of job card holders did not get employment in almost all the years. In the year 2011-12, 63% of workers did not get work for even a single day. The average employment per respondent decreased from about 23 days in 2006-07 to about 14 days in 2011-12. This indicates that participation of workers is very low in MGNREGA in the study area. The root cause of low participation is lack of information/awareness about MGNREGS and job card not handed over to them. The contribution of MGNREGS income was about 9% to the total family income of the working respondents (37%). In the study area, there was a common problem of non-availability of camel carts at low rate fixed by the government. There is a need of further strengthening of the MGNREGS to generate sufficient employment for rural workers.
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