Employment Policies and Programmes : Opportunities and Challenges

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Recent employment scenario/Arup Mitra. 2. Impact of monetary, fiscal and external policies on organized sector employment/Vikas Dixit. 3. Employment generation under MGNREGS in rural villages of Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu/M. Saravanan and J.John Vellakkan. 4. Impact of MGNREGA on employment of disadvantaged groups, wage rates and migration in Rajasthan/Mrutyunjay Swain, Shreekant Sharma and Himanshu Parmer. 5. Employment opportunities under MGNREGS in Karnataka/Mallikarjun G. Naik and Ashok R. Rathod. 6. Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National rural employment Guarantee MGNREGA act: imperatives in the light of empirical evidences/K.K. Bagchi, Sujit Majumdar and Chinmoy Sarkar. 7. Role of MGNREGA in rural employment: a case study of Dakshin Dinajpur District of West Bengal/Tapan Kumar Ghosh, Paramita Dasgupta, Satyen Sarkar and Kanak Kanti Bagchi. 8. New policy regime as a driver of economic growth and employment: an evaluation/Inderjeet Singh, Bhavna Chaabra and Ramna Singla. 9. Employment in India: policies and programmes/S.M. Jawed Akhtar, Md. Masroor Alam and Manzoor Alam. 10. Impact of MGNREGA on employment generation/Manish Dev. 11. Drivers of changing pattern of employment: technical and vocational education and training (TVET)/Nishikant Jha and Amrendra Kumar Singh. 12. Income and employment generation through MGNREGS: a case study in Chinna Gottigallu Mandal of Chittoor District/D. Subramanyam, D. Yuvaraju, M. Devarajulu and G. Savaraiah. 13. Challenges of employment growth in Maharashtra with respect to NREGA: lessons to be learnt/G. Rajalaksmy, Mohana Bandkar and Rohini Kelkar. 14. Employment policies and major employment programmes/Dhananjaya, K.B. and Dhakshayani M. Dongre. 15. Impact of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA on rural wages/Bhagwan Singh Sharma Deepti and Radha Parmar. 16. Growth and employment linkage in Uttar Pradesh/Jagriti Sharma, Rajesh Kumar and Sudama Yadav. Index. The book identifies he factors influencing employment both at the regional and national levels by analyzing various policies and progerammes. The empirical studies of Indian State economies and interdependence between employment and economic growth translate into livelihood security are well incorporated in the book. It employs a very broad range of state experiences to understand the efficacy of MGNREGS and the inter-linkages among various stakeholders of the programme. This book has displayed some important policy implications. Researchers, government executives and readers who are interested in employment and rural development will find the book of enormous use.…