Women in NREGA: Issues of Child Care

The present study on evaluation of the NREGA Scheme is intended to assess the impact of this scheme on the status of child care services at worksites of the NREGA, status of facilities available to women workforce, changes occurring in the lives of women after accessing this scheme, status of migration and availability of facilities at the work sites. The study is also aimed at assessing the opinion of job-card holders and also the role of Panchayats in the implementation of NREGA. The overall purpose of this study is to capture the impact of the scheme, views and feed-back of the beneficiaries on various facets of implementation of the scheme at grass root level right from the stage of issue of job cards.