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MGNREGA Works and their impacts - A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra

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  • Sudha Narayanan

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

  • Krushna Ranaware
  • Upasak Das

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

  • Ashwini Kulkarni

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts in Maharashtra. It has two goals: the first was to verify the existence of the assets and the second was to elicit user perceptions of the problems and benefits they associate with the work. The survey indicates that 87 of the works exist and function and over 75 of them are directly or indirectly related to agriculture. A bulk of the rest constitutes rural roads that connect habitations to farms and provides access to agricultural markets. The study also finds that 92 of the randomly selected users paper that their main occupation is farming; half of them are small and marginal farmers, owning less than 1.6 hectares of land. An overwhelming 90 of respondents considered the works very useful or somewhat useful; only 8 felt the works were useless. There is some evidence that where people feel that have played a part in deciding the type of work, these are more likely to be ranked as useful and well-maintained. Likewise, works on private lands tend to score better in terms of perceived usefulness and in terms of present condition. Overall it appears that the works are supportive of agriculture and of small and marginal farmers. There is however scope to improve the design of assets and to have a more inclusive process of work selection.

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  • Sudha Narayanan & Krushna Ranaware & Upasak Das & Ashwini Kulkarni, 2014. "MGNREGA Works and their impacts - A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2014-042, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
  • Handle: RePEc:ind:igiwpp:2014-042
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    1. Vinoj Abraham, 2018. "MGNREGS: Political Economy, Local Governance and Asset Creation in South India," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Madhusudan Bhattarai & P.K. Viswanathan & Rudra N. Mishra & Cynthia Bantilan (ed.), Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India, chapter 0, pages 199-223, Springer.
    2. Rachel Godfrey†Wood & Benjamin C. R. Flower, 2018. "Does Guaranteed employment promote resilience to climate change? The case of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 36(S1), pages 586-604, March.
    3. S. Mahendra Dev, 2020. "Income Support Through Cash Transfers and Employment Guarantee Schemes During the Pandemic Times in India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(1), pages 133-138, October.
    4. Upasak Das, 2015. "Rationing and Accuracy of Targeting in India: The Case of the Rural Employment Guarantee Act," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(3), pages 361-378, September.
    5. Sanghmitra S Acharya & Gobinda C Pal, 2017. "Implementation of Social Protection Programmes in India : Gaps and Challenges," Southern Voice Occasional Paper 40, Southern Voice.

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    Keywords

    MGNREGA; India; assets; agriculture; subjective perceptions; local participation;
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    JEL classification:

    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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