Impact Of Mnrega In Rural Areas In UP

Abstract

The MNREGS is indeed the first tangible commitment to the poor that they can expect to earn a living wage, without loss of diginity. A particular significance of the MNREGS is that many of  the assets created under the programme can directly benefit the poor. This is because the Act specifies that individual works are permitted, but only for the benefit of households below the poverty line and from the scheduled castes and tribe communities. Perhaps the most important of all, and of lasting impact, is that a process for the empowerment of teh poor is emerging around the MNREGS. This process has commenced in several parts of the country where poor households have been able to assert themselves and demand the payment of the minimum wage, bargain for higher wages, seek and obtain the unemployment allowance from a reluctant and unwilling admininstration. Training and capacity building for each one of the stakeholders is also an important, if obvious priority. It is specially so for the MNREGS because the dimensions and processes involved here require a different kind of understanding- quite outside realm of the experience of the past.

Keywords-   Empowerment, Impact Of Mnrega, first tangible commitment and   Rural Areas In Up.