• ANALYSIS OF RURAL EMPLOYMENT GENERATION PROGRAMME: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MGNREGA

Dr.Dushyant Kumar

Abstract:
Employment generation in rural India has emerged not only as one of the most crucial socio-economic issue in India but also the most pressing political concern. Bulk of India’s unemployed population live in rural areas and providing employment to them has been the recurring theme of all major five year plans. The government had initiated a number of rural development programme including employment generation programme since the 80’s. Different innovative scheme and programme have been initiated time to time in different plan period. Some have achieved goals in short or long term but others have faced technical and implementation difficulties. Therefore, now the time to bring better legislation and implemented pro people development policies in the country.