Vijayabaskar, M.; Balagopal, Gayathri - 2019
initiative of the UPA was the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA); a program which sought to protect … the livelihoods of the poor agricultural labourers during periods of distress, by granting adult members of every rural … emergence of these two initiatives in India. This includes the political and civil society imperatives that shaped the design …