2012
Infrastructure Development and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Bankura, West Bengal
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Introduction. The immediate goal of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is to ensure a social safety net for vulnerable groups by providing a fall-back source of employment when other alternatives are scarce. However, its long-term goals are to create durable rural assets and infrastructure which meet local needs and help address chronic poverty and to foster a model of governance based on the principles of grass-root democracy and transparency (Ministry of Rural Development, 2008). While several papers have examined pertinent aspects of the functioning of the programme, such as targeting (Jha et al., 2009), impact on consumption (Ravi and Engler, 2009) and various implementation issues including corruption (Rai, 2008; Institute of Applied Manpower Research, 2008) there is limited work on the quality and upkeep of the infrastructure built through the programme and indeed whether the constructed projects meet local needs. ...
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Roy, J., & Bedi, A. S. (2012). Infrastructure Development and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Bankura, West Bengal. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/38555 |
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