Efficacy of MGNREGA as a Poverty Alleviation Tool
Recently, the Central government constituted a committee to review the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, especially to assess the program’s efficacy as a poverty alleviation tool.
About the Committee
- It has been constituted under the Chairmanship of the former Rural Development secretary Amarjeet Sinha.
Mandates
- To study various factors behind demand for MGNREGA work, expenditure trends and inter-State variations, and the composition of work.
- To look at the argument that the cost of providing work has also shot up since the scheme first started.
- To suggest what changes in focus and governance structures ....
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