Description

The Government of India (GOI) instituted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural

Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in 2005 to address rural poverty and

unemployment in India. This study will discuss transparency, accountability and the

impact of NREGA in selected districts of Rajasthan. The system of grievance redressal

was selected as the proxy for measuring the impact of the transparency initiative on

accountability. The broad aim of the research study is to evaluate the efficiency and

effectiveness of the Scheme as compared to its objective, critically assessing the

policies, procedures and practices to make conclusions, assessing the performance of

various monitoring and implementing institutions under the Act, and documenting the

best practices and performances for replications.