• Dinesh musser
• Avishake Raina

MGNREGA is scheme started to provide 100 days of employment to the jobless people. Its also aims at to eradicate poverty.The main aim of the paper is to focus on whether MGNREGA is successful in ensuring sustainable livelihood or not. The study has been conducted with the objective to analyze the functioning and execution of the scheme at grass root level and examining “the impact of MGNREGA on rural livelihoods” (Employment, Consumption and Migration) in the ChangranPanchayat of Kathua District of J& K State. Logit model is used to determine the significant determinants of MGNREGA beneficiary. The institutional arrangements between workers and officials of MGNREGA, (i.e., Panchayat, village level worker) is responsible for less than 100 man days under the scheme in this study area, this is the main loophole of the scheme. There is no significant impact of the scheme MGNREGA in uplifting the rural livelihoods and sustainable development of people in this study area.

"Determinants of Beneficiaries of MGNREGA and Socio-economic impact of MGNREGA: - A case Study of District Kathua", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.127-133, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRQ006024.pdf

"Determinants of Beneficiaries of MGNREGA and Socio-economic impact of MGNREGA: - A case Study of District Kathua", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp127-133, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRQ006024.pdf