Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship scheme to provide at
least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that demands work.
Using government reported data, this brief reports on the trends for:
■ Allocations, releases, and expenditures;
■ Paid wages and delayed compensations; and
■ Employment demanded and provided.
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship ‘Housing for All’ scheme. The scheme aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural houseless families and those living in dilapidated and kutcha houses.
Using government data, this brief reports on trends in:
■ Allocations and cost estimates;
■ Releases and expenditures;
■ Target completion and physical progress of house construction; and
■ Payments to eligible citizens.
While government departments work in silos, there is potential to synergise effort, finances, and technical expertise to plan and implement programmes and achieve holistic objectives. This can benefit scheme delivery by ensuring tasks are coordinated and conducted in timely fashion; fewer net resources are allocated towards one objective; and there is scope for increasing reach and coverage, ensuring smoother monitoring, and stronger feedback and accountability mechanisms.
This issue brief aims to highlight how convergence is understood by the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in various government documents including guidelines, letters, and circulars.
The PAISA for Panchayats research project extends Accountability Initiative’s PAISA methodology to track fund flows and implementations processes at the Panchayat level. This study attempts to bridge this gap in measuring the extent of fiscal decentralisation by:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship scheme to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a Financial Year (FY) to every rural household that demands work.
Using government reported data, this brief reports on:
■ Trends in allocations, releases, and expenditures;
■ Trends in employment provided and wages paid; and
■ Coverage and participation under the scheme.
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) is Government of India’s (GoI) flagship ‘Housing for All’ scheme. The scheme was launched in November 2016 and aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural houseless families and those living in dilapidated and kutcha houses.
Using government data, this brief reports on trends in PMAY-G along the following parameters:
■ Allocations and cost estimates;
■ Releases and expenditures;
■ Target completion and physical progress of house construction;
■ Payments to beneficiaries; and
■ Convergence with Ujjwala.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) income support scheme, under which all landholding farmers receive up to ₹6,000 per year to supplement their financial needs.
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this brief uses government data to analyse:
■ GoI allocations and releases;
■ Coverage including registrations, payments made, and failed payments;
■ Ineligible beneficiaries and funds transferred to them; and
■ Comparison between monthly consumption expenditure of a farmer household and PM-KISAN benefits.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) income support scheme, under which all landholding farmers get up to Rs. 6,000 per year to supplement their financial
needs. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this brief uses government data to analyse:
■ Allocations and releases;
■ Coverage including registrations, payments made, and funds going to ineligible farmers; and
■ Comparison between monthly consumption expenditure of a farmer household and PM-KISAN benefits.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is a flagship scheme of the Government of India (GoI) which aims to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that demands work.
Using government reported data, this brief reports on:
■ Trends in GoI allocations and releases and total expenditures;
■ Trends in employment provided and wages paid;
■ Physical assets created and status of work completion.
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship ‘Housing for All’ scheme. The scheme was launched in November 2016 and aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural houseless households and those living in dilapidated and kutcha houses.
Using government data, this brief reports on trends in PMAY-G along the following parameters:
■ Allocations and cost estimates
■ Releases and expenditures
■ Beneficiary selection and target setting
■ Target completion and physical progress of house construction
■ Payments to beneficiaries
