Environment Security and Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme
Santosh Gawai and Vinod Sen
Abstract Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme
(MGNREG Act 2005), has support as innovative and reconstructive help to the
environment at all over rural India. MGNREGA scheme aim is enhancing livelihood security at national level through the providing 100 days employment to rural
household in every year. In India, nearly 70 % population is working in agriculture
and its allied activities. Present research paper is trying to look into the various
aspects of the MGNREGA and its impacts on environment security. Through gram
sabha, works have undertaken which are largely improving water resources, land
improvement, soil conservation with sustainable protection. As we know that water
is very essential to the environment, the scheme managed the irrigation system and
improvement and renovation of traditional water sources, land development and
drought. This scheme commenced the works to generate the ground water recharge,
soil, biodiversity conservation, sustaining food products, halting land degradation
and building resilience to current climate risk such as moisture, stress, delayed
rainfall, drought and floods. MGNREGA has been hailed as a scheme that provides
‘sustainable livelihoods’ or ‘green jobs’ to crores of workers engaged in restoring
rural environment. This is because the works created under MGNREGA are
claimed to have massive potential to improve environmental indicators, for
instance, by raising water levels, sequestering carbon dioxide, improving soil
quality, etc. The scheme will give excellent outcomes after the better supporting of
financial budget for scheme. The present research paper is trying to show the effect
of MGNREGA works on environment and sustainable development, and
employment generation to households and need of financial grant.
Keywords Environment security Á Sustainable development Á MGNREGA Á
Employment irrigation Á Wage
S. Gawai (&) Á V. Sen
Centre for Studies and Research in Economics and Planning, School of Social Sciences,
Central University of Gujarat, 382029, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
e-mail: santosh.from.cug.007@gmail.com
V. Sen
e-mail: senvinod79@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_18
315
Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme
Santosh Gawai and Vinod Sen
Abstract Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme
(MGNREG Act 2005), has support as innovative and reconstructive help to the
environment at all over rural India. MGNREGA scheme aim is enhancing livelihood security at national level through the providing 100 days employment to rural
household in every year. In India, nearly 70 % population is working in agriculture
and its allied activities. Present research paper is trying to look into the various
aspects of the MGNREGA and its impacts on environment security. Through gram
sabha, works have undertaken which are largely improving water resources, land
improvement, soil conservation with sustainable protection. As we know that water
is very essential to the environment, the scheme managed the irrigation system and
improvement and renovation of traditional water sources, land development and
drought. This scheme commenced the works to generate the ground water recharge,
soil, biodiversity conservation, sustaining food products, halting land degradation
and building resilience to current climate risk such as moisture, stress, delayed
rainfall, drought and floods. MGNREGA has been hailed as a scheme that provides
‘sustainable livelihoods’ or ‘green jobs’ to crores of workers engaged in restoring
rural environment. This is because the works created under MGNREGA are
claimed to have massive potential to improve environmental indicators, for
instance, by raising water levels, sequestering carbon dioxide, improving soil
quality, etc. The scheme will give excellent outcomes after the better supporting of
financial budget for scheme. The present research paper is trying to show the effect
of MGNREGA works on environment and sustainable development, and
employment generation to households and need of financial grant.
Keywords Environment security Á Sustainable development Á MGNREGA Á
Employment irrigation Á Wage
S. Gawai (&) Á V. Sen
Centre for Studies and Research in Economics and Planning, School of Social Sciences,
Central University of Gujarat, 382029, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
e-mail: santosh.from.cug.007@gmail.com
V. Sen
e-mail: senvinod79@gmail.com
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_18
315