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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for rural development.

  • UPSC 2016, 2013
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Enacted in 2005 and renamed in 2009, MGNREGA guaranteed every rural household 100 days of unskilled manual work on demand, with an unemployment allowance for delay beyond fifteen days. Sociologically its importance lay less in the wage than in its form: it turned rural employment from a discretionary programme into a justiciable right, closing a…

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  • An entitlement, not a dole
  • Sociological consequences
  • Critiques
  • A changed institutional form
  • Conclusion

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