Open AccessImpact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on Enhancing Socio-economic Conditions of Rural Households
Author(s) -
Mousam Kumari,
Ramesh Chandra,
Arun Kumar Paswan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-2237
pISSN - 2349-9788
DOI - 10.52403/ijrr.20210217
Subject(s) - poverty , socioeconomics , economic growth , economic impact analysis , rural area , agriculture , social security , business , rural poverty , per capita , government (linguistics) , development economics , economics , geography , political science , environmental health , population , medicine , market economy , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , microeconomics
Employment is fundamental pre-requisite to raise per capita income and eradicate household poverty. 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. The present study was carried out over 240 respondents in Samastipur district of Bihar to find out Impact of MGNREGA on the socio-economic conditions of the rural people. The study revealed that the impact of the Act has been found to be of medium level as have been reported by 52.92% of the beneficiaries. The components wise impact in terms of economic, social, health, psychological, environmental, infrastructural and institutional impact were evaluated. The results revealed that under economic impact employment in agricultural lean period with the mean score value of 2.64% observed first and under social impact the substantial impact have been recorded in the area of increased social mobility. In case of impact on health and hygiene, majority of male beneficiaries (46.67%) represent that there was a substantial impact on improvement in the nutritional security. While in case of psychological, environmental, infrastructural and institutional impact was found in the thought is being developed to become self-employed in near future, conservation of natural resources, enhanced rural connectivity and strengthening grass-root democracy, respectively.Keywords: Impact, MGNREGA, Socio-economic conditions, Beneficiaries.