IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN HARYANA.
- Research Scholor in Management, Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar punjab.
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Estimates of the total number of unemployed or underemployed people in India vary between 50 to 300 million. The Economic Survey of India has reported that the unemployment rate increased from 5.99 per cent in 1993-4 to 7.32 per cent in 1999-2000. To make matters worse, young people accounted for 53 per cent of the total unemployed in the country. In absence of viable and reliable social or economic security of any kind, the majority of Indians have no option but to slave under appalling conditions for less than decent wages, often from childhood to old age. The case of brick kiln workers and also the efforts made by Swamy Agnivesh to get bonded labourers freed are telling. The brick kiln workers are not allowed to leave the work, even when some of them have no debt. In 18 out of the 32 states and union territories where legislation on minimum wages applies, the minimum permissible daily wage is less than Rs 50; the range of minimum wages rises above Rs.100 only in four states. It goes without saying that even such low minimum wages are not always paid. To make matters worse, there are seasonal variations in availability of work and calamities of various kinds – from drought to social conflict – adversely affecting employment and livelihoods on a regular basis. A number of programmes have been initiated in the country to provide gainful employment, enhancing rural peoples’ skills, their income and thus to ensure their food security etc. but without the tangible and expected results from each of these programmes Under the pressure of social groups, the congress party made NREGA a part of its election manifesto. Later on strong stand by the NAC and pressure of left parties on whose support the govt. was formed, it was made an essential aspect of National Common Minimum Programme of the UPA – I. The NREGA was passed in 2005 and brought into implementation in Feb. 2006, initially in 200 most backward districts spread over 27 states, another 130 districts in the following year (113 from 1st April and 17 districts of UP from 15th May). The entire country was covered in the third year of its implementation, i.e., from 1st April, 2008.
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[Trilochan Chorasia and Mahesh Kumar. (2017); IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN HARYANA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 1456-1465] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Research Scholor in Management Punjab Technical University Jalandhar Punjab