• Dr. M. Harsha Preetham Dev Kumar

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) seeks to enhance the livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Employment is fundamental pre-requisite to raise per capita income and eradicate household poverty. Poor employment opportunity is one of the key reasons for the endurance of poverty in India. After independence and particularly from the Fifth Five Year Plan onwards, Government of India has initiated several rural development programmes for raising rural employment for the alleviation of rural poverty. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is one amongst them.

Employment, Livelihood, Volunteer etc.

"A STUDY ON IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN THE EMPOWERMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTE COMMUNITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no.b772-b780, November-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311194.pdf

"A STUDY ON IMPACT OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME IN THE EMPOWERMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTE COMMUNITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no. ppb772-b780, November-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311194.pdf