Significance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act NREGA in India

Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger is the first and the primary concern of Millennium Development Goals MDGs . The primary consideration to trigger development should be to maximize work opportunities for the unemployed and under employed. A multifaceted developmental strategy has been adopted to address the needs of the poor by ensuring their basic rights and to promote economic growth. To fight unemployment , poverty and enhance livelihood security more effectively with multiplier effect on Social Capital formation ,Physical Capital, Ecological Synergies, Strengthen Democratic Process and ensure Sustainable Development a new wage employment programme namely National Rural Employment Guarantee Act NREGA was formulated in 2005 and implemented in all the states and union territories of India in phased manner from February 2006 .With its legal frame work and rights based approach Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act MGNREGA provides 100 days of guaranteed to every rural house hold whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work with in a financial year. Dr. Saroj Kumari "Significance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49977.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/49977/significance-of-national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-nrega-in-india/dr-saroj-kumari