Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act MGNREGA on Women Empowerment in Supaul District

Gender equality and the prosperity of women in Rural areas are critical to achieving integrated development and holistic development. Womens empowerment has immense potential to take the country towards development. In the 9th five year plan 1997 2002 , women empowerment was accepted as the main policy. As a result, the Government of India has declared the year 2001 as the year of women's empowerment. The 11th five year plan considers women as agents of economic and social development. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act MGNREGA is a policy of the Indian government, under The Ministry of Rural Development. : It's working to improve the socio economic status of rural residents. MGNREGAs implementation is having a good impact on rural living and women's empowerment. The main focus of this article is the impact of MGNREGA on womens empowerment in five gram panchayats GP of the Supaul community development block in Supaul, district of Bihar. It also focuses on the benefits and drawbacks of MGNREGA for womens empowerment, as well as possible ways to solve the problems. Neeraj Kumar | Dr. Ravindra Kumar Sharma "Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on Women Empowerment in Supaul District" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52049.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/economics/other/52049/impact-of-mahatma-gandhi-national-rural-employment-guarantee-act-mgnrega-on-women-empowerment-in-supaul-district/neeraj-kumar