Abstract
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) implemented by the Ministry of Rural
Development (MoRD), is the flagship program of the Government that without delay lines to lives of the poor and promotes comprehensive growth. The Act aims at good-looking livelihood safety of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members have unpaid assistance to do unskilled manual work. Mahatma Gandhi NREGA is the first ever law universal that guarantees wage employment at an outstanding scale. The primary objective of the Act is to augment wage employment and its supplementary objective is strengthening natural resource management through works that address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation, and soil erosion and encourage sustainable development. The process outcomes include strengthening grassroots processes of democracy and infusing transparency and accountability in governance. Keeping this view, the authors have attempted to review the performance of MGNREGA as the main objective of this paper. It also explains the objectives, features, permissible works under this Act, and the funding pattern of MGNREGA.
Keywords: MGNREGA, Performance, Rural Employment, Households, Persons-days
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