Employment Guarantee

Since Independence several programmes have been introduced to arrest poverty unemployment inequalities and so on. Although the economy is moving rapidly still the country is suffering from such deep rooted problems. To attack on unfinished challenges the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was introduced in 2005 to provide at least a minimum 100 days employment for every household those who are willing to do. Unlike earlier programmes it is well designed with Constitutional backing. It is the first step taken towards Right to Employment to provide a minimum employment guarantee to the rural poor in this direction. This study analyses implementation of the NREGA in the country and Andhra Pradesh for its three year journey. Especially it explains the problems and issues that are experienced in the implementation of NREGA at grass-root level.