GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 1447

ANSWERED ON:22.03.2012

IMPACT OF MGNREGS ON SELF EMPLOYMENT

(a) whether Indian School of Business, Hyderabad has recently published a report on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme stating that the scheme is hampering the growth and expansion of small and cottage industries in rural areas as the common man is getting increasingly dependent on the Government employment scheme there by discouraging self employment in small and Cottage Industries;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the reaction of the Government thereto?

ANSWER

 (a): Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, in its research report entitled `Why an innovative anti poverty programme showed no net impact` has not found any conclusive evidence on the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the implementation of micro enterprise development programme in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, the sample district of the study.

(b) & (c): Does not arise.