RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN KARNATAKA THROUGH MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT

Abstract

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), also known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) is Indian legislation enacted on August 25, 2005. The MGNREGA provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage. The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), Government of India is monitoring the entire implementation of this scheme in association with state governments. This Paper discusses the key developments in the agricultural sector in India is a country where most of workers depend on the informal sector for their livelihood people have to leave their home district to work and work elsewhere, and due to improper working conditions, many uncertainties have to be faced. These migrants live in the slums of the city also which people are not able to migrate from one place to another place. They depend on meager assets and have limited their expenses to a great extent. MGNREGA, started in 2005 by the government of India, is trying to solve the problem of migration by providing the means of employment in its own place, under 100 days of employment benefits of rural population.

Keywords: MGNREGA, Rural Development, Economic empowerment