India’s Right to Employment: A Justification to the Demand and Employment with Special Reference to Chhattisagarh

Right to employment was designed and implemented for the rural landless labourers who are ready to do the unskilled manual work, it was a power given to them in their own hands within their areas to fulfill their livelihoods. Migration problem was also raising their head and to suppress the problem, this programme was one of its kind. MGNREGA started providing 100 days of wage employment to the people in a year mainly in the non-agricultural season. Programme became a support system to the rural, backward, vulnerable groups of society including the SC/STs and women were the main beneficiaries. The wage pattern under the MGNREGA is one of the important observations that in the earlier stages there was much of the uncertainty in the earning pattern by creating it more transparent and more accountable now there is a regular pattern of wages. The author tries to portray the ratio between the employment demanded and employment provided to them for the complete 100 days in the country and in Chhattisgarh state. The data are used for past 5 years from 2013-14 to 2017-18. And for the last years the employment ratio had been declined rapidly in the state as well as in the whole country. The data's given is for the complete 100 days of employment provided to the people compared to the employment demanded by them. As with the matter of fact that this is the biggest employment generation programme of the country. Hence, the performance of the programme must be considered by the planners for creating more employment opportunities to meet the demands of the rural labourers.