Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Rural Employment Opportunities – A Case Study of Palakkad District in Kerala State

Abstract

The nature of unemployment existing in India is sharply differs from the one that prevails in industrially advanced counties. A large number of workers are forced to remain jobless both in rural and urban areas. So the government of Indian introduced various employment generating programmes from the past three decades. The Maharastra model of rural employment has existed since 1970's. The National rural Employment Programe and rural Landless Employment program began in 1980's in 1989, Rajiv Gandhi Government integrated the two schemes in to one. Thus born the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY). But it was different. The funds would be deposited in to village institution responsible for development activities used to create employment creation.