Nandini Jagannarayan

Socio-economic upliftment of the rural poor in gobichettipalayam – a case of successful implementation of mgnrega act

• Authors Details :  
• Nandini Jagannarayan,  
• Shivaji Pawar

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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), with a mandate to provide at least hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose members above the age of eighteen years volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The main focus of the act is to facilitate the social protection for the people living in rural India by providing employment opportunities and therefore contributing towards the overall development of the local people. The present study was attempted to figure out the impact of MGNREGA on overall economic and social development of beneficiaries in Gobichettipalayam, Erode district of Tamilnadu.. The results found the MGNREGA has significantly improved their social and economic well-being. The study also has highlighted on the fact that agricultural wages have gone up after the introduction on MGNREGA scheme in the current area.

Article Subject Details

• Accounting and finance

Article Keywords Details

• economic well-being
• Erode
• marginalised.
• MGNREGA
• social well-being
• Gobichettipalayam

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