Economic Impacts

Banerjee (2009) studied that a number of centrally sponsored scheme have been implemented under rural development mission for the welfare of the poor. But NREGA is one of the greatest experiments undertaken in India to eradicate rural poverty. The scheme has been launched to supplement the error and gaps of all previous schemes with the involvement of Panchyats, civil society and local administrations. Poor families were targeted to get benefits to employments and livelihoods to supplements their family income.

Chakraborty (2009) found that the NREGS has so far posed no problem for the budget. Its allocation is only marginally higher than what was spent in the past by the guarantee on various rural employment programmes. It is a demand driven scheme and it has fallen for short of meeting demand in some states. The fund utilizations ratio also varied widely across states

Dutta (2009) examine the NREGA now renamed as a MGNREGA has now emerged as one of the important tools for rural development for combating hunger and unemployment. After three years of its completions, many states have the moderate or minimum success. The scheme now falls various implementation challenges. Further he found that corruptions and lack of preparations in implementing NREGA have led to some setback. But these slippages do not reduce the landmark legislations to irritancy.

Kumar et al (2009) conducted a study on implementing NREGA in Haryana; a study of social audits they examined that the NREGA was enacted with transfer to bring out socio economic transformation in the lives of rural people. Its component of social audit, no doubt is salient feature but our experience reveals that there is wide gap between the intended aims of the act and cultural milieu of he villages in Haryana. They further examined that the elected members of the PRI’s perceive the social audit as a daunting challenge to their traditional power structure.

Hirway (2010) examined that the mahatma Gandhi National...