Need of urban employment guarantee scheme in india

Author: 
Ravikiran R Garje

At present India is said to be third largest economy in the world in terms of PPP. However, we still need to find out solutions for high poverty, income inequality and large unemployment. Poor health, malnutrition and low literacy rate are other issues. Provision of employment can solve most of these issues. Hence, in this paper it is tried to focus on the possibility of urban employment guarantee scheme in line of MGNREGS. So that urban labour needs not to go back to rural area in distress situation like recent covid19.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2022.669.0150
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