Abstract: Existing gap between urban and rural process of growth and change necessitates development decentralization as like the political decentralization in India. Factual development is related to all the people of rural and urban areas. Economists accepted the same and argued in favour of capability enhancement of rural people for balanced economic development.
MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is one of the flagship programmes of government of India implemented in the year 2005. By the very nature of the act, it has been active in each and every rural corners of the country. Rural unskilled people are entitled to minimum 100 days of work in a year. With different scheduled works and convergent approaches of MGNREGA, the process of rural development is now disseminated in the hands of participants. Taking 100 sample MGNREGA workers and same number of non MGNREGA workers (with same economic status) of Assam state (during June to September, 2018) we observed the situation- whether MGNREGA has promoted peoples’ participation in development and actually decentralized the process of development. With these prime objectives of research we collected empirical information regarding MGNREGA workers (Experimental Group/EG) from 10 numbers of different MGNREGA work sites (located in different panchyats) of Assam. Similarly, information for non MGNREGA workers (Control Group/CG) is collected from the respective panchyats from where the MGNREGA work sights are chosen for data collection. Both MGNREGA and non MGNREGA workers are belonging to similar economic standard especially with respect basic economic necessities of living.
Taking four matching covariates (Age, educational qualification, marital status and family type) and variables (peoples’ participation and decentralization of development) of study we applied PSM technique of research. Out of total 200 sample units of research 146 units are exactly matched and accordingly impacts on peoples’ participation and decentralization of development through MGNREGA are analyzed in the paper. Matching propensity score lies between 0.38 to 0.63 ranges. ‘Peoples’ participation in development and decentralization of development has increased in the current period’ is the single hypothesis created to verify during the course of our study. Using SPSS we analyzed the problem and found positive peoples’ participation and development decentralization under MGNREGA in the state of Assam.
Keywords: Decentralization, Development, Impact, Peoples’ Participation, MGNREGA etc.
Title: Participation and Decentralization of Development: A Case Study of Assam
Author: Dr. Trailokya Deka
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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