Nemai Chandra Das
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2024 | Page No: 218-232 | |||
Mgnrega And Its
Impact on Socio-Economic Development- A Case Study of Beldanga-Ii Block,
Murshidabad District, West Bengal.
Nemai Chandra Das, Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science, Sudhiranjan Lahiri Mahavidyalaya, Majdia,
Nadia, West Bengal, India | |
Any nation's progress would be difficult to imagine without the growth of its rural economy, and ignoring rural development is equivalent to ignoring the nation's overall development. The majority of Indians reside in rural areas. 68.8% of the nation's population, as determined by the 2011 census, lived in rural areas. The process of enhancing rural residents' quality of life and economic empowerment is known as rural development. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) is a comprehensive law that aims to promote rural development and employment opportunities for rural residents of India. MGNREGA aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The present study tries to review the current status of implementation of MGNREGA in Beldanga II block of Murshidabad district, West Bengal and to identify emerging strengths and weakness for wider dialogue for improvement. 50 households have been chosen from Dadpur gram Panchayat on stratified random sampling basis. The Present study observes some irregularities in the implementation procedure and the lack of awareness about the rights. | |
Keywords: MGNREGA, Rural Development, Awareness, Empowerment, Unemployment. | |