Review of Literature

Since the implementation of MGNREGA in India several works carried out to check its
effectiveness. Some Out of them here we tried to review.

Sr. No.

Name of the

Name of the

Year of

1.

Author

Study

the Study

Ambasta P. et. al.

Two Year of NREGA:

2008

The Road Ahead

2.

Naomi Jacob

The Impact of

Objective
Evaluated the two
year performance of

2008

NREGA
To find out whether

NREGA on Rural-

the NREGA Act

Urban Migration:

(2005) can have an

Field survey of

impact on rural-urban

Villupuram District,

Migration, To find out

Tamil Nadu

whether the income

pattern of the people
in the surveyed
region has changed
after the NREGS and

3.

Ashok K. Pankaj

PROCESSES,
INSTITUTIONS,
AND MECHANISMS
OF
IMPLEMENTATION
OF NREGA:
IMPACT
ASSESSMENT OF

2008

how so.
(1)To Understand the
implementation
process of the
NREGA in terms of
the
institutional
involvement with
specific reference to

BIHAR AND

the PRIs, project

JHARKHAND

staff, civil society

organizations,
peoples participation

and social
mobilization. (2)
Facilitating a
preliminary
assessment of the
impact on
employment and
livelihood security,
migration, local
wages and labour
market conditions,
community assets and
4.

Jha R. et. al.

Capture of anti-

2009

rural infrastructure.
Try to know whether

poverty programs: An

the NREGA benefits

analysis of the

are captured by poor

National Rural

or non-poor.

Employment
Guarantee Program in
5.

Sponsored by

India
Appraisal of Impact

July-August

Appraisal of the

UNDP

Assessment of

2009

Impact Assessment of

NREGS in Selected

NREGS

Districts of Himachal
Pradesh, Punjab,
Haryana.
District: Hoshiarpur,
6.

Roy D.S.,

Sirsa, Sirmaur
Good Governance and

Samanta D.

Employment

performance of Gram

Generation through

Panchayat (GP) in

NREGA:

performing core

2009

Measured the

A case Study of Gram

characteristics of

Panchayat in West

Good Governance

Bengal

and to explore the

relationship between
good governance and
employment
generation through

7.

Gaiha R., et. al.

National Rural

2009

NREGA
To construct an

Employment

intuitive measure of

Guarantee Scheme,

the performance of

Poverty and Prices in

the National Rural

Rural India

Employment
Guarantee Scheme
(NREGS) in India a
nation-wide Poverty
alleviation

8.

Nair K. N. et. al.

A STUDY OF

2009

programme
(1)To know the

NATIONAL RURAL

impact and

EMPLOYMENT

organizational

GUARANTEE

arrangements for

PROGRAMME

planning and

IN THREE GRAMA

implementation

PANCHAYATS OF

of the NREGS. (2)

KASARAGOD

Various institutional

DISTRICT

aspects in the form of

Guidelines,
Rules and
Regulations brought
out by the
Government of

Kerala have
9.

10.

11.

Reetika Khera

Group

2009

also been examined.

To Measure the work

Measurement of

site management in

NREGA work: The

the selected districts

Singh S.P.

Jalore Experiment
SYSTEM AND

Nauriyal D.K.

PROCESS REVIEW

and processes

AND IMPACT

followed in the

ASSESSMENT

initiation and

OF NREGS IN THE

execution NREGS in

STATE OF

the State of

UTTRAKHAND
NREGS in Uttar

Uttarakhand
To study the impact

Dr.Ankita Gupta

2009

2010

of Rajasthan.
To review the systems

Pradesh: Some Issues

of NREGS scheme in

to Address

Uttar Pradesh based

upon the performance
indicators given by
government on

12.

Raghwesh Ranjan

Making NREGS

2010

NREGA
To understand the

Reach Out:

strength and

Experiences from

weaknesses of

the Study Undertaken

implementation of

in Bihar

NREGA with special

focus on demand and
supply side issues to
identify the existing
gaps at various levels
in the present
implementation
process.