KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF RURAL PEOPLE TOWARDS NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD MISSION (NRLM) UNDER MOKOKCHUNG DISTRICT, NAGALAND

Human society has been facing a lot problems and challenges so as to sustain themselves of which poverty seems to be the crucial artefact. India being one of the largest democratic country in the world is facing such hurdle for inclusive growth with poverty as one of its main cause. A large percentage of the Indian population still belongs under Below Poverty Line (BPL) category. It is evident from many research studies that the rural society is suffering a lot. Therefore, a need to eradicate poverty and elevate the livelihoods of the rural poor has been one of the major concerns of the Indian Govt. Welcoming the issues and problems of the rural poor, different schemes have been implemented of which one is the National Rural Livelihood Mission. It was implemented by the Govt. of India with the aim to uplift the lives of the rural poor. It has become the world's largest poverty alleviation scheme. Hence, to visualise and measure the practical implication on the lives of the rural poor, a study has been conducted to find out the knowledge level and its implication on the socio economic profile of the rural people of Kubolong Block of Mokokchung district, Nagaland. The study revealed that most of the respondents (65.83%) percent had medium knowledge level followed by (20.83%) percent of respondents belonged to high knowledge level and (13.33%) percent had low knowledge level.