Performance of MGNREGA: An Overview

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is one of the most important acts for India’s rural poor, the act provides a Legal guarantee for at least 100 days of employment to begin with on asset-Creating public works programmes every year at minimum wages to at least one able-bodied person in rural poor and lower middle class house hold. In this scheme was renamed as MGNREGA the memorandum of 130 th year Gandhi jayanthi on 2nd October 2009. MGNREGA is a powerful instrument for ensuring inclusive growth in rural India through its impact on social protection, livelihood security and democratic empowerment. In the scheme central and state government share was 75 percent and 25 percent respectively. . Its budget outlay increased from Rs. 11,300 crores in 2006-07 to Rs. 40,100 crores during 2011-11.