Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India - A Case Study on Gourangachak of Hooghly in West Bengal

Abstract

Over the last seven years the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has delivered the largest employment programmed in human history. It has two category of objectives, primary objective is augmenting wage employment and auxiliary objectives is strengthening natural resource management through works that address causes of chronic poverty like flood, drought, soil erosion and encourage sustainable development. In this study the researcher tried to find out impact of the scheme on a village.