National Rural Employment Programme: Its Impact on Himachal Pradesh

achievements additional employment Agri agricultural labourers Average beneficiaries Bilaspur block level cash Census cent Chamba component of wages cultivators Dharamsala direct employment Distt DRDA due to lack economic employ employment opportunities expenditure extent of un(der farm Figures in parentheses foodgrain distribution gramme Hamirpur hectare hence Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh University households impact implementation increase infrastructure irrigation Kangra and Sirmur Kangra District Kinnaur Labour Economics labour force land holding landless manday marginal farmers ment multiplier effect National Rural Employment needs NREP employment NREP plan Nurpur Block Pachhad Block Paonta Block Paonta Sahib parentheses are percentages participation percentages to respective PIREP poverty line production base Ratio between cattle respective totals respondents rural areas Rural Employment Programme rural population Sample shelf of projects Shimla Sirmur District small and marginal Social Forestry surplus labour TABLE target group tion total employment total family income village Panchayats wage payment wage rate workers