Research Study on Factors Facilitating Participation of Women in ...

104 Factors Facilitating Participation of Women in Mahatma Gandhi NREGSNumber of Working Days and Awareness and Participation ScoresAwareness and participation scores are calculated across the numberof days of MGNREGS employment provided to the sample respondents.There is a significant corelation between both the scores and the numberof days of employment under MGNREGS and the relationships are nonlinear.Awareness as well as participation scores increased with increase innumber days of employment. But surprisingly both the scores decreased forthe respondents who worked for more than 80 days. It is inferred that withincrease in awareness and participation levels, people could obtain morenumber of days of work in MGNREGS.Factors Facilitating ParticipationFactors such as culture, history, government policy, and social,political, and economic structures influence participation. Individual andgroup motivators appear to be context-specific and locality-bound ratherthan universally-definable.There is a wide range of factors that could hinder and constrainpromotion of participation, and these often lead to the emergence of nonparticipation.Such obstacles prohibiting participation abound : they rangefrom institutional, socio-cultural, technical, logistical, and are spread overRS 97