• Dr. P. Subramanyam
• Dr. G. Prathap

Abstrct Growing the aim of the wage employment programme to more effectively fight poverty, the Central Government formulated the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in 2005. With its legal framework and rights-based approach, MGNREGA provides employment to those who demand it and is a paradigm shift from earlier Programmes. Notified on September 7, 2005, MGNREGA aims at enhancing livelihood security by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do un-skilled manual work. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) reduced poverty by up to a third and gave a large number of rural People their first opportunity to earn cash income. The district’s shelves of works to provide employment are to be selected from the list of permissible works. Central Government 100 per cent of wages for un-skilled manual work, 75 per cent of material cost of the schemes including payment of wages to skilled and semi-skilled workers. State Government- 25 per cent of material including payment of wages to skilled and semi-skilled workers cost. 100 per cent of unemployment allowance by state government. In terms of the physical and financial achievements of NSAP, it has performed the best in Financial Year 2022-23. During Financial Year 2022-23, the highest-ever release of funds to the States/UTs to the tune of Rs.9652 crores was made, and the maximum number of beneficiaries (301 lakh) ever was covered. To foster transparency and swiftness in transactions, NSAP pension schemes were included under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes in December 2014. At present, almost all States/ UTs are DBT compliant except Andhra Pradesh and Nagaland. The number of digital transactions for NSAP increased from 1.73 crores in 2014-15 to 21.52 crores in 2022-23. At present, data of all NSAP pension beneficiaries have been digitized, and the pension schemes have already achieved 100% saturation in all States/ UTs in Sept 2022. During 2020-21, in addition to the regular funds released to the States/UTs, funds to the tune of Rs.2814.50 crores were also released to the States/ UTs.

employment. Households income, MGNREGS

"The Development and Effectiveness of MGNREGS: A Case Study in Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.k567-k577, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403A72.pdf

"The Development and Effectiveness of MGNREGS: A Case Study in Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppk567-k577, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403A72.pdf