Evaluation of performance of Mgnrega with special reference to Odisha
International Journal of Development Research
Evaluation of performance of Mgnrega with special reference to Odisha
Received 15th July, 2017; Received in revised form 24th August, 2017; Accepted 07th September, 2017; Published online 10th October, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Kishor Ch. Sahu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
It is first time in the history of India a programme like MGNREGA launched as an act to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to the rural household willing to do unskilled manual work on demand. This act is also sensitive for the weaker section of the society such as SC, ST and Women. On the basis of secondary data for last five years the present study has undertaken to evaluate the performance of MGNREGA in a socio-economically backward state Odisha in term of providing of job on demand, completion of 100 days of work and average number of days of employment per household. The study found that more than 50% of employment has been provided to the SC and ST beneficiaries along with minimum 1/3rd of job for the women in all the years. However providing of 100 days of employment as per the act is not encouraging in Odisha. So this study emphasized on the proper implementation of the scheme starting from grass root level to the top level of authority for the development of the rural sector.
