Review of LiteratureSince 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

Author

Name of the

Study

Year of

the Study

Objective

1. Ambasta P. et. al. Two Year of NREGA:

The Road Ahead

2008 Evaluated the two

year performance of

NREGA

2. Naomi Jacob The Impact of

NREGA on Rural-

Urban Migration:

Field survey of

Villupuram District,

Tamil Nadu

2008 To find out whether

the NREGA Act

(2005) can have an

impact on rural-urban

Migration, To find

out whether the

income pattern of the

people in the

surveyed

region has changed

after the NREGS and

how so.

3. Ashok K. Pankaj PROCESSES,

INSTITUTIONS,

AND MECHANISMS

OF

IMPLEMENTATION

OF NREGA:

IMPACT

ASSESSMENT OF

BIHAR AND

JHARKHAND

2008 (1)To Understand the

implementation

process of the

NREGA in terms of

the

institutional

involvement with

specific reference to

the PRIs, project

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

rural infrastructure.

4. Jha R. et. al. “Capture” of anti-

poverty programs: An

analysis of the

National Rural

Employment

Guarantee Program in

India

2009 Try to know whether

the NREGA benefits

are captured by poor

or non-poor.

5. Sponsored by

UNDP

Appraisal of Impact

Assessment of

NREGS in Selected

Districts of Himachal

Pradesh, Punjab,

Haryana.

District: Hoshiarpur,

Sirsa, Sirmaur

July-August

2009

Appraisal of the

Impact Assessment of

NREGS

6. Roy D.S., Good Governance and 2009 Measured the

Samanta D. Employment

Generation through

NREGA:

A case Study of Gram

Panchayat in West

Bengal

performance of Gram

Panchayat (GP) in

performing core

characteristics of

Good Governance

and to explore the

relationship between

good governance and

employment

generation through

NREGA

7. Gaiha R., et. al. National Rural

Employment

Guarantee Scheme,

Poverty and Prices in

Rural India

2009 To construct an

intuitive measure of

the performance of

the National Rural

Employment

Guarantee Scheme

(NREGS) in India –a

nation-wide Poverty

alleviation

programme

8. Nair K. N. et. al. A STUDY OF

NATIONAL RURAL

EMPLOYMENT

GUARANTEE

PROGRAMME

IN THREE GRAMA

PANCHAYATS OF

KASARAGOD

DISTRICT

2009 (1)To know the

impact and

organizational

arrangements for

planning and

implementation

of the NREGS. (2)

Various institutional

aspects in the form of

Guidelines,

Rules and

Regulations brought

out by the

Government of

Kerala have

also been examined.

9. Reetika Khera “Group

Measurement” of

NREGA work: The

Jalore Experiment

2009 To Measure the work

site management in

the selected districts

of Rajasthan.

10. Singh S.P.

Nauriyal D.K.

SYSTEM AND

PROCESS REVIEW

AND IMPACT

ASSESSMENT

OF NREGS IN THE

STATE OF

UTTRAKHAND

2009 To review the

systems and

processes followed in

the

initiation and

execution NREGS in

the State of

Uttarakhand

11. Dr.Ankita Gupta NREGS in Uttar

Pradesh: Some Issues

to Address

2010 To study the impact

of NREGS scheme in

Uttar Pradesh based

upon the performance

indicators given by

government on

NREGA

12. Raghwesh Ranjan Making NREGS

Reach Out:

Experiences from

the Study Undertaken

in Bihar

2010 To understand the

strength and

weaknesses of

implementation of

NREGA with special

focus on demand and

supply side issues to

identify the existing

gaps at various levels

in the present

implementation

process.