TY - BOOK AU - Pankaj, Ashok TI - Right to Work and Rural India: Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) SN - 9788132117100 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - Social Science N1 - Section I: Introduction 1 --Guaranteeing Right to Work in Rural India: Context, Issues and Policies Section II: MGNREGS: Alleviating Poverty through Employment Generation 2 --MGNREGS: A Component of Full-employment Strategy for India 3 --Interpreting the Right to Work: What Relevance for Poverty Reduction? 4 --Which Way to Reduce Poverty: Cash Transfers or Employment Guarantee Scheme? Section III: Working of the MGNREGS: Regional Variations in Implementation and Impact 5 --Demand and Delivery Gap: A Case for Strengthening Grass-roots Institutions in Bihar and Jharkhand 6 --Working of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan: Some Grass-roots Experiences 7 --MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh: Examining the Role of State-enabled Institutions 8 --Employment Guarantee Scheme in Punjab: A Case Study of Hoshiarpur District Section IV: MGNREGS and Agents of Rural Transformation 9 --Assets Creation and Local Economy under MGNREGS: Scope and Challenges 10 --MGNREGS and its Effects on Agriculture: Exploring Linkages 11 --MGNREGS and Indian Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges 12 --Empowerment Effects of the MGNREGS on Women Workers Section V: Prospects 13 --Overcoming the Governance Challenges of Implementing MGNREGA?: Insight from Bihar Using Process-Influence-Mapping 14 --MGNREGA and Rural Governance Reform: Growth with Inclusion through Panchayats UR - https://evidya.sagepub.in/library/right-to-work-and-rural-india?bookId=2554&siteName=evidya ER -