Analysis of Payment Delays and Delay Compensation in MGNREGA: Findings Across Ten States for Financial Year 2016–2017

Narayanan, Rajendran; Dhorajiwala, Sakina; Golani, Rajesh

doi:10.1007/s41027-019-00164-x

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“…The SC share increased from 25% to 31% for the first 5 years (till 2010–11) but declined thereafter. This reflects that although the MGNREGS is intended to provide employment guarantee to marginal sections like SC/STs in rural areas, it is not efficient in terms of targeting them and is often being undermined by snatching of the scheme’s benefits by other claimants, due to rationing (Narayanan & Das, 2014; Narayanan et al, 2017), delays in wage payments (Narayanan et al, 2018), and some other problems. As a result, the scheme could not fully address the problem of distress migration from rural areas (Agarwal, 2019; Reddy et al, 2014).…”

Section: Participation Of Women and Social Groupsmentioning

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MGNREGS Performance (2006–21): An Inter-State Analysis

Turangi

2022

South Asia Research

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With its several innovative features, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is considered to be a game changer for rural India. Assessing the first 15 years of its implementation, this article mainly presents collated key data on its performance in various Indian states and then seeks to explain why some indicators may look less successful in different states. Many factors contribute to variations in MGNREGS performance, but what effects were observed in economically backward states to protect impoverished rural Indians from sinking into distress scenarios? Based on the official figures, the article explores answers for the period of 2006–21.

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Section: Participation Of Women and Social Groupsmentioning

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MGNREGS Performance (2006–21): An Inter-State Analysis

Turangi

2022

South Asia Research

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“…A number of studies have examined the welfare impacts of MGNREGS on indicators related to poverty, women's empowerment, nutrition, education, and reduction in distress-driven migration, among others (Afridi et al 2017;Das 2015;Dasgupta et al 2017;Deininger and Liu, 2013;Imbert and Papp 2015;Khera and Nayak 2009;Nair et al 2013). Other studies have documented administrative problems-including high unmet demand and delayed payments-that have undermined the potential benefits of the programme (Dutta et al 2012;Liu and Barrett 2013;Narayanan et al 2017;Narayanan et al 2019). Because dearth of information is a major reason for such failures, our intervention intends to enhance awareness, giving information about process failures and disseminating personalized information on wage credits that can enable the beneficiaries to hold the local authorities accountable.…”

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“…Wages may be 'rejected' on account of technical errors such as incorrect entry of account numbers in the system.13 SeeNarayanan et al (2019) for a more detailed description of the payment process.14 The RN6 table from the data portal gives the credit and debit dates.…”

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Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme? Evidence from a field experiment in India

Das

Paul

Sharma

2021

WIDER Working Paper

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Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly available micro-level data on last mile delays in payment and programme uptake, along with a set of intermediate outcomes. The findings point to a substantial reduction in last mile payment delays along with improvements in awareness of basic provisions of the programme and process mechanisms while indicating a limited effect on uptake. However, we find a considerable increase in uptake in the subsequent period, which is potentially indicative of an ‘encouragement’ effect through the reduction in last mile delays. A comparatively higher impact on payment delay was found for deprived communities. The findings lay a platform for an innovative information campaign that can be used by government and civil society organizations as part of transparency measures to improve efficiency.

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“…This has led scholars such as Mahendra Dev (2019) to argue that the potential demand for MGNREGA employment is even greater, although this demand is muted by the fact that MGNREGA wages are below the minimum wage or market wage. Narayanan et al (2018) and others also point out the problem of undue delays in wage and compensation payments, both of which discourage those in need from seeking MGNREGA employment. Similarly, while budgetary allocations for health and family welfare including health research have increased, programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, which aims to provide health insurance coverage of Rs 500,000 to 100 million families, is severely underfunded for the purpose (Mahendra Dev, 2019).…”

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Social Policy and Political Mobilization in India: Producing Hierarchical Fraternity and Polarized Differences

Gudavarthy¹,

Vijay²

2020

Development and Change

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This article attempts to decode the ways in which social policy that has essentially developmental and welfare imperatives is being used to pursue an exclusivist‐authoritarian right‐wing agenda in India under Narendra Modi. The authors highlight a contradistinction between the previous United Progressive Alliance regime led by the Congress Party and the current National Democratic Alliance regime led by the BJP to show the shift in the understanding and the role of social policy. In essence, social programmes have been combined with market‐oriented reforms, undoing the entitlements‐based approach to social policies of the previous regime. The authors then go on to discuss a variety of social policy programmes introduced by the Modi government with a focus on public health and sanitation objectives, but also including gender empowerment imperatives, education, training and employment programmes for socially marginalized groups.

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Analysis of Payment Delays and Delay Compensation in MGNREGA: Findings Across Ten States for Financial Year 2016–2017

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MGNREGS Performance (2006–21): An Inter-State Analysis

MGNREGS Performance (2006–21): An Inter-State Analysis

Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme? Evidence from a field experiment in India

Social Policy and Political Mobilization in India: Producing Hierarchical Fraternity and Polarized Differences

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