MGNREGA_SAMEEKSHA

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Babu, S., H. Rao, and P. T. Reddy, ‘Impact of MGNREGS on Agriculture and Rural Labour Markets: A Study of Madhya
Pradesh’, Hyderabad: National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), 2011.
Abstract:The study has been undertaken in Betul and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh to assess the impact of MGNREGA
on labour markets, particularly with regard to changes in land use, cropping patterns and economics of agriculture. In both
the districts, research shows that fallow land has been brought under cultivation; there has been a change in cropping pattern
from dry land crops to irrigated crops and from traditional to cash crops. There is also a reported hike in the cost of labour.
Migration continued unabated in the study areas. However, there was no distress migration by the sample farmers.
Babu, S., H. Rao, P. T. Reddy, and D. Chakrabarty, ‘Impact of MGNREGS on Agriculture and Rural Labour Markets:
A Sudy of West Bengal, India’, Hyderabad: National Institute of Rural Development, 2011.
Abstract: The study has been undertaken in Paschim Medinipur and Burdwan districts of West Bengal, to assess the impact
of MGNREGA on labour markets, particularly with reagrd to changes in land use, cropping patterns and economics of
agriculture. Distinct changes in land use pattern have taken place and fallow lands have been brought under cultivation. On
the other hand, marginal and small farmers have experieinced high costs for paddy cultivation in irrigated as well as rain-fed
areas. But an analysis of the break-up of the costs shows that some of the expenses pertaining to small farmers, especially on
irrigation, have reduced. This is attributed to the irrigation structures created under MGNREGA.
Babu, V. S., and K. H. Rao, Impact of MGNREGS on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes: Studies Conducted in Eight
States, Hyderabad: National Institute of Rural Development, 2010.
Abstract: Studies were undertaken by NIRD in Tripura, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar
Pradesh and West Bengal to highlight issues related to MGNREGA and Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs)
in each of the States. The studies also elaborate issues of MGNREGA implementation; for example, awareness levels among
beneficiaries, etc. Other impacts of the Scheme with regard to agriculture wage and migration have also been noted.
Banerjee, K., and P. Saha, ‘The NREGA, the Maoists and the Developmental Woes of the Indian State’. Economic and
Political Weekly, vol. 65 no. 28, 10 July 2010.
Abstract: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s much touted flagship programme under the NREG Act is aimed
at countering some of the developmental woes of the Indian state in the backward regions. The Maoists are active in some of
the most backward areas and the government has been accusing them of stalling development. Hence, the current solution
operationalised by the government is to flush out those opposing development by force and then proceed with developing these
areas. The authors examine these issues through a case study of the NREGA in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa. The
districts chosen were from among the first 200 where the NREGA has been implemented from 2006 onwards and are also
under the influence of the Maoists.
Bassi, N., D. M. Kumar, V. Niranjan, and M. Sivamohan, ‘Employment Guarantee and Its Environmental Impact: Are the
Claims Valid?’ Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 46, no. 34, 20 August 2011.
Abstract: This study questions some of the assumptions, fundamental concepts and methodologies by Tiwari et al. ‘MGNREGA
for Environmental Service Enhancement and Vulnerability Reduction: Rapid Appraisal in Chitradurga District, Karnataka’
(in Economic and Political Weekly, 14 May 2011), arguing that the analysis in the study does not support the authors’ claims
of multiple benefits from the MGNREGA.
Bassi, N., and D. M. Kumar, NREGA and Rural Water Management in India: Improving Welfare Effects, Hyderabad: Institute
for Resource Analysis and Policy, 2010.
Abstract: NREGA is being eulogised by many in the academic, development and policy arena as a ‘silver bullet’ for eradicating
rural poverty and unemployment, by way of generating demand for productive labour force in villages and private incentives
for management of common property resources. The study argues that the nature of water management activities chosen
under the Scheme and the callous way in which these activities are planned and implemented in different regions, without any
consideration to their physical and socio-economic realities of the regions concerned, are creating several negative welfare effects.
It identifies three broad and distinct regional typologies in India for deciding the nature of water management interventions for