Agricultural Economics Research Review
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: confspl

Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme on consumption expenditure pattern of non-food items of rural women labor in Punjab and Karnataka

  • Author:
  • Syed Rizwan Ahmed1,, Sanjay Kumar1, Murtuza Khan2
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 166 to 166

1Department of Economics and Sociology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004

2Department of Agriculture Economics, GKVK, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

*Corresponding author: syedrizwan-aes@pau.edu

Online published on 22 February, 2021.

Abstract

Using primary data on the annual spending pattern of rural women labor under MGNREGS, on non-food items revealed that after the implementation of MGNREGS, total annual non-food expenditure were Rs.12383 per labor. The percent expenditure found that health Rs.1948 (16 per cent), education of children Rs. 1464 (12%), clothing Rs. 1534 (12%), consumer durables Rs. 980 (8%), religious and family ceremonies Rs.750 (6%), cooking Rs.1106 (9%). Similarly, in Karnataka, annual non-food expenditure were Rs. 18,755 per labor. Repayment of debts were Rs. 2580 (14%), cooking Rs.3365 (18%), transportation Rs.2274 (12%), consumer durables Rs. 2028 (11%), and education of children Rs.2002 (10%). Therefore, MGNREGA helped in improving the income and consumption- expenditure pattern among rural women labours.