India: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) Ms. Subhalakshmi Nandi Programme Specialist, Women’s Economic Empowerment UN Women Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka ADB Regional Seminar on Women’s Employment, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Bangkok, 20 th May 2015
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India: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)
UN Women Office for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka
ADB Regional Seminar on Women’s Employment, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment
Bangkok, 20th May 2015
Status of Women in India
32% in India lives below the poverty line
11% marginalised HHs headed by women
943 females to 1000 males (CSR 914)
65.4% women literate
Maternal mortality at 212 per 100,000 births
Above 70% women have nutrition deficiencies
35% women have faced sexual/physical violence in the lifetime
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Female work participation rate at lowest: 22.8%
21 million women exited the workforce between 2004-05 and 2009-10
Over 93% workers in informal employment | Majority women | 79% rural women in agriculture (of which 81% belong to marginalised groups) | Only 9% women own land
51% of women’s work unpaid
18% women have no say on how their income is spent
(Census, ILO, NSSO, UN Women)
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MGNREGA: Key Features
Legal entitlement, passed on the demand of farmers’ and workers’ organisations