Impact of MGNREGA on Living Standard of Agriultural Labourers in Tripura: An Empirical Study on Unakoti District
Published: 2019
Author(s) Name: Mrinal Kanti Deb |
Author(s) Affiliation: Doctoral Scholar, Dept. of Rural Studies, Tripura University (A Central Univ.) Agartala, Tripura
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Abstract
The empirical study has been conducted to measure the impact
of MGNREGS over the standard of living of agricultural labourers.
The study also tried to analyse the effect of the scheme over the
expenditure on food and education for children’s. The comparative
study stands on stratified multistage random sampling with total 218
agricultural labourers (sample size) and above this 109 agricultural
labourers were selected from beneficiary (MGNREGS) households
and rests of the samples were from non-beneficiary counterparts.
To deal with these objectives, a standard of living index (SLI)
has been constructed by applying principal component analysis
method and statistical tools t-test also has been done. According
to constructed standard of living index, the living standard of
beneficiary agricultural labourers was found far better than their
counterparts. Moreover, the differences over the expenditure on
food and children’s education between two comparative groups
were also found significant.
Keywords: MGNREGS, Agricultural Labourers, Standard of Living Index, Principal Component Analysis
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