Notes

- Act, guaranteed a minimum 100 days of employment - chronicle poverty
- Right to Work [Right based approach
- this is the only law in the country that is not budget constrained and is not supply driven.
- It has given dignity to them and has acted as a market mechanism. SCs/STs account for 51% of the total person-days generated and women account for 47% of the total person-days generated.
- This legislation has been bringing about a silent revolution in rural areas of the country - cascading effects
- better governed States using technology-enabled banking solutions like smart cards, social audits and grievance redressal systems.
- driven by Panchayats - bottom up approach; design, implementation and supervision by panchayat
- unskilled manual labour - so skilled worker, generally among well to do families, who can find easy job do not take the benefits. As a result better targeting. On the other hand, the benefits of Antoday Anna Yojna is also taken by well to do families who are influential in the rural area.
-MGNREGA is supposed to be demand or need-driven
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Skoch Development Foundation has noted the expenditure on MGNREGA is higher in better-off states such as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh than in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh or Odisha, where the need for such a scheme is arguably greater. It is the opposite, however, for PMGSY where the expenditure incurred in Bihar is over six times that in TN.






MGNREGA may have a role in mitigating immediate rural distress on account of drought and other unforeseen calamities. But programmes like PMGSY, Skill Development Mission provide more effective long-term poverty alleviation solutions, through raising of overall productivity and expansion of non-farm employment opportunities