Employment Generation under MGNREGA in Tribals Andhra Pradesh Testimony of Five Years

Abstract

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) an ambitious mass employment guarantee scheme implemented since the five years intends to sustain income and consumption in Indian rural outback. The large programme backed by budgetary allocation promises 100 days of manual work to households who register and apply. The objective of the paper is to examine the extent to which the intended programme has reached the tribals people in terms of employment generation, asset creation and wage accruals through involving MGNREGA works for the last five years of the programme at the village level in Parvathipuram Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Parvathipuram Mandal, Budurvada village. This is located in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh. This is a higher tribal participating village in Parvathipuram Mandal under the MGNREGA. The reference period for the analysis is from 2006-07 to 201011. The data is collected from secondary sources for this study it includes the information available on the official websites of MGNREGA and APNREGA. Simple averages, ratios, and percentages have been used to carry out my objective. The major findings of the study are no household in tribal of the village completed 100 days employment in first three years of the programme, above 50 % employment sharing by the tribal women in every year in this village.