• Enamul Haque Mollick

In India, there are many kinds of religious men and women living side by side. Like man, women’s are also integral part of society as well as country. But they are leg behind from the main stream of the society as well as country. Therefore the government has taken a conscious view to make adequate provision in its policies and programme for women empowerment. Various programmes are formulated by Ministry of Rural Development keeping in view the above perspective. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the most of them for Women Empowerment. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is being considered as a “Silver Bullet” for the development of society. It has been eradicating the rural poverty and unemployment by the way of generating demand for productive labour force and job guarantee of people in villages of India. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), is an important milestone for developing the employment opportunity for women in the rural areas in India. It gives the guaranty of right to work for individual or citizens in the village section. If the state cannot provide work within 15 days of an individual’s demand for work, the state is bound to pay an unemployment allowance until the individual receives employment. My paper aims to describe the women’s empowerment and its impact on social development. In this context, I am trying to explore the developmental process of women through MGNREGA activities in Jalnagi block. It also tries to analyze the impact of social development in Jalangi. This Scheme has been universalized and is operational in all the 10 Gram Panchayats of the Jalangi Block. The Act aims at eradication of extreme poverty of marginalised people and making villages as self-dependence through productive asset creation and capacity building of People. So we can emphasised on it as an Act “of the people, by the people and for the people” for the development.

MGNREGA, Women Empowerment, Social Development, Unemployment Allowance

"MGNREGA as a strategy of Women Empowerment: A case study of Jalangi Block in Murshidabad District.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.326-334, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901747.pdf

"MGNREGA as a strategy of Women Empowerment: A case study of Jalangi Block in Murshidabad District.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp326-334, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901747.pdf