• Dr. D. Pyditalli

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship programme of the Government that directly touches lives of the poor and promotes inclusive growth. MGNREGA, the employment guarantee program to the rural population in India, especially Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups have a mixed record of success in terms of providing adequate employment to those in need, the quality of asset creation, and the adequacy of wages offered. The Act aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Mahatma Gandhi NREGA is the first ever law internationally that guarantees wage employment at an unprecedented scale. The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment and its auxiliary objective is strengthening natural resource management through works that address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation and soil erosion and so encourage sustainable development. The process outcomes include strengthening grass-root processes of democracy and infusing transparency and accountability in governance. In conformity with the National Act, the Government of Andhra Pradesh is implementing this Act since January 2006 and made considerable progress in fulfilling the programme objectives. The present study hypothesized that the performance of MGNREGA in Srikakulam District in terms of providing employment and generating person days improves overall livelihoods of rural poor households especially in Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

MGNREGA, Employment, Livelihoods, Rural Households, Performance.

"Impact of MGNREGA on Employment Generation on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in The Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no.77-82, March-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRGU06015.pdf

"Impact of MGNREGA on Employment Generation on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in The Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no. pp77-82, March-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRGU06015.pdf