Santosh Singh, R.S.Negi, Rekha Dhanai and Alok Sagar Goutam
ABSTRACT
Examine the effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a wage for employments plan of the Indian Government, on rural poor the pathways through which MGNREGA affects their poverty. The objective of the paper is MGNREGA could reduce poverty through positive effects on living standard, Poverty and income. The present study is data is based on both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected from the five village of Jahrikhal Block, Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. 120 respondents were asked in total selected through purposely-random sampling. The results revealed that MGNREGA plays a key role in order to reduce the poverty of rural poor people. On the further hand it enlarge the community and economic facility by providing the employment opportunity and development of Asset creation. In this way, MGNREGA has steadily raised the standard of rural livelihood as it provides the proper wage disbursement and authentic wok facilities.
Keywords: MGNREG,NREGA, MHNREGA, wage-employment, rural livelihood etc.