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Employment Generation by NREGS in India: An Efficiency Analysis


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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Netaji Subhas Mahavidyalaya, Udaipur, Tripura, India
2 Dr. (Late) Amitabha Sinha was Reader, Department of A & A Economics, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar- 799130, Tripura (W), India

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This paper focuses on the efficiency in employment generation by MGNREGS in the states of India by gauging different indicators such as the Average Person Days Creation (APDC), Percentage of Fund Utilization (PFU), number of Job Card Issuing (JCI) per 1000 population and performance in creation of village infrastructure. The Stochastic Frontier model was used to estimate the technical efficiency in employment generation by MGNREGS between the states during the period from 2010-11. The efficiency rank analysis showed that the north - eastern states performed well as compared to the other states of India.

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NREGS (Welfare Programme), Employment, Average Person Days Creation (APDC), Percentage of Fund Utilization (PFU), Job Card Issuing (JCI)

138, J21

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Ruma Saha
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Netaji Subhas Mahavidyalaya, Udaipur, Tripura, India
Amitabha Sinha
Dr. (Late) Amitabha Sinha was Reader, Department of A & A Economics, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar- 799130, Tripura (W), India

Abstract


This paper focuses on the efficiency in employment generation by MGNREGS in the states of India by gauging different indicators such as the Average Person Days Creation (APDC), Percentage of Fund Utilization (PFU), number of Job Card Issuing (JCI) per 1000 population and performance in creation of village infrastructure. The Stochastic Frontier model was used to estimate the technical efficiency in employment generation by MGNREGS between the states during the period from 2010-11. The efficiency rank analysis showed that the north - eastern states performed well as compared to the other states of India.

Keywords


NREGS (Welfare Programme), Employment, Average Person Days Creation (APDC), Percentage of Fund Utilization (PFU), Job Card Issuing (JCI)

138, J21




DOI: https://doi.org/10.17010/aijer%2F2013%2Fv2i1%2F54502