Citation:

Neena Malhotra, Navdeep Kour. "Women and SC/ST Participation in MGNREGA in India: An Inter-State Analysis" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 117-124, 2023.

Abstract:

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a landmark policy initiative for the enhancement of the livelihood security of the rural households of the country by procuring a guarantee of at least one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. This paper examines the state-wise status of women and SC/ST participation in MGNREGA. This employment generation programme requires a minimum of 33 percent of women's participation. But there are wide inter-state variations in the country regarding this. For the year 2012-13, Kerala has shown the maximum (94 percent) women participation rate, whereas Uttar Pradesh has shown the least (19) percent participation rate. Also, there are wide variations in SC/ST participation across the country. The study also correlates women and SC/ST person days under MGNREGA with poverty, population growth, sex ratio and literacy rates.

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Keywords:

Interstate-Analysis, Rural Employment, MGNREGA.