Published: Year 2014 • Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Open Access
MGNREGA is the central Government programme to the constitutionally manifested right to work and means to promote livelihood security in the rural areas. The programme guarantees generation of employment opportunities for 100 days in a f...
Majority of rural poor in developing countries depend on agriculture for their livelihood. As the distribution of land in these countries remains skewed, agriculture being seasonal activity, majority of these rural people remain unemploy...
Punjab state is rich in water resources but the drinking water supply is facing acute problems. A survey was carried out with the objective to highlight the water supply and sanitation problems in rural households and analyze their socio...
Gender Budget Statement (GBS) presented in interim budget 2014-15 was tenth of its kind and it presents in black and white the extent of government seriousness towards upliftment of women in India. This paper makes an analysis of this ye...
The agro industry is regarded as an extended arm of agriculture. The development of the agro industry can help stabilize and make agriculture more lucrative and create employment opportunities both at the production and marketing stages....
NREGA is one of the most important programmes ever launched’ for rural India. Although it has been positioned and popularized as social security and livelihood scheme but it also have a very important connotations for economy as a whole....