Class and Social Policy: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in <scp>K</scp>arnataka, <scp>I</scp>ndia

Pattenden, Jonathan

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“…Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India is home to the largest number of poor people in the world, making poverty reduction a challenge [21]. It is now established that trickle-down effects do not work in developing countries such as India [22].…”

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Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village

Reddy

Sarkar

Onishi³

2022

Land

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This paper explores beneficiary targeting of government programmes in a village in India. The analysis is based on all 228 households of the village and focus group discussions. The results show that there is a large exclusion error in targeted programmes, which have mostly excluded the poor and the needy. Most schemes have a prerequisite of asset ownership, such as agricultural land, which benefits resource-rich farmers with large landholdings. The relationship between benefits received and income of households is best represented by an inverted ‘u’-shape curve, indicating the middle-income category benefits more than the poorest. The scope and scale of welfare programmes, especially Direct Benefit Transfers, increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. For inclusion of the poorest of the poor, welfare and development schemes need to be decoupled from landownership in rural areas.

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Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village

Reddy

Sarkar

Onishi³

2022

Land

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“…It is up to state governments to implement policies such as the Right to Education Act in ways that are sensitive to stateparticular characteristics in economic, linguistic and religious differences. Karnataka's increasing reliance on its urban IT sector often obscures the fact that its rates of poverty decline are among the lowest in the country, and it is one of the least researched of India's southern states (Pattenden, 2017). The state's education policy reflects a desire to merge a continued and deeper interest in developing its technological advancements with national mandates on ensuring school attendance and quality for all levels of primary school.…”

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Ethical tensions in designing ethnographic research with schoolchildren in rural Karnataka

Ipe

2019

Global Studies of Childhood

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This article provides an overview of the ethical tensions of preparing for ethnographic research with children in a rural district in Karnataka, India. Such children are at the receiving end of policy and international organisation interest, which alternately frames them as both victims of poverty and conflict and as agents of potential change in their communities. Additionally, researchers must often negotiate particularly muddy ethical waters when working with Majority World children from marginalised backgrounds. A critical exploration of the various complexities is provided in order to develop a working ethical framework. Of key importance is the need for reflexivity when journeying from western higher institutions (the ‘ivory tower’) to the ‘field’, a space and time carrying different weight and implications for the participants than the researcher. This article argues for the need to critically examine and weave in the multiple discourses of power that permeate children’s lives and engage with children’s responses to these discourses. While rural Karnataka provides a case study for the ethical tensions of ethnographic research with Majority World children from marginalised backgrounds, the principles espoused here are broadly applicable to children in a variety of contexts.

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“…At the same time, the introduction of a rural employment programme through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was noted by a number of interviewees as further shifting the bargaining dynamics between labourers and employers. Although controversial in its design and implementation, the latter theoretically guarantees rural households labour for 100 days as a form of subsistence guarantee designed to alleviate distress migration (see Pattenden, , for an in‐depth study in neighbouring districts of Karnataka). Over the past half decade, these changing dynamics of rural labour have cumulatively underscored a steady rise in wage rates for agricultural labourers—albeit from very low rates—and a deepening sense of a “labour shortage” among farmers.…”

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The political ecology of rice intensification in south India: Putting SRI in its places

Taylor

Bhasme

2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The system of rice intensification (SRI) has been promoted across Asia as a means to improve rice yields while decreasing water use and external inputs. It is argued to be a generalisable means by which to revalidate smallholder livelihoods and improve food security across the region. Current debates about SRI, however, remain predominantly technical in scope, focusing on field-level outcomes. To more adequately understand the potential of SRI for smallholder farmers, we argue that it is necessary to situate SRI within a political ecology framework that addresses how the adoption and practice of SRI is shaped by uneven access to key assets including labour, water, and extension net- works. Fieldwork conducted in Mahabubnagar district inTelangana, south India-where SRI had been widely disadopted despite the achievement of higher yields-is used to illustrate why agronomic analysis must engage directly with the complex social contexts in which farmers operate. KEYWORDSclimate-smart agriculture, India, political ecology, risk, system of rice intensification

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Class and Social Policy: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Karnataka, India

Abstract: The literature on India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has tended to focus on institutional and technical issues more than on the social relations of production. This paper argues for a class-relational approach to NREGS and, by extension, to

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village

Assessing the Outreach of Targeted Development Programmes—A Case Study from a South Indian Village

Ethical tensions in designing ethnographic research with schoolchildren in rural Karnataka

The political ecology of rice intensification in south India: Putting SRI in its places

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