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| Article Name : | | | ASSET CREATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A CONSCIOUS STRATEGY FOR ENHANCING LIVELIHOODS SECURITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE | | Author Name : | | | Saurabh G. Vispute , V.V.Kulkarni and Priyanka P. Thipsay | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-755 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | Health and other quality of life indices are deeply influenced by improvement in livelihoods security. Thus it forms one of the fundamental tenets of sustainable development. As per the Indian government's Census 2011, rural India constitutes 68.84 % of Indian population of which around 33% population is under the poverty line. If India has to realize its promised growth and development, it is imperative that this multitude of people be able to earn their livelihood in a sustainable way. This is the very objective with which the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was passed in the year 2005 (rechristened as Mahatma Gandhi NREGA- MGNREGA in 2009) with an objective of providing 100 days of employment in way of manual labor which uses unskilled labor and with the help of that, create sustainable community assets. NREGA marks a paradigm shift & stands out amongst other rural employment programmes as it empowers the rural population with a legal right & employment guarantee through an act of parliament, unlike other wage employment programmes. The act targets unskilled laborers in the rural sections of this country which includes landless labors, SC's/ST's & women. | | Keywords : | | |
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