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Employment is fundamental pre-requisite to raise per capita income and eradicate household poverty. Poor employment opportunity is one of the key reasons for the endurance of poverty in India. After independence and particularly from the fifth five year plan onwards, Government of India has initiated several rural development programmers for raising rural employment for the alleviation of rural poverty. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is one amongst them. MGNREGA scheme is as a flagship program by the Government of India started on February 2, 2006. As per the Scheme, each rural household gets 100 days of guaranteed employment (unskilled works) every year. Although the major objective of this scheme is to provide livelihood security for rural households, it also facilitates the creation as well as maintenance of rural infrastructure and employment generation. The present paper is an attempt to overview the implementation and impact of MGNREGA on employment generation in rural India. It also examined the financial progress of MGNREGA and employment generated by this scheme. It not only provides security for food but also supports rural development. To perform the objective of the paper secondary data has been used.
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