Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: with special reference to empowerment of Marginalized Community

Abstract

The provisions of voting rights, reservation in education and jobs and in the political fields, are the steps which have been in existence since the adoption of the Constitution.  Government is taking initiatives so that marginalized section of people can uplift their standard of living and able to remove problems such as poverty, differentiation on basis of caste, gender and creeds which has troubled millions of our people for centuries. In order to accelerate the growth rate of India government has launched the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee act in 2005 it can be termed as unique safety net because its beneficiaries are not passive recipients of monetary benefits, but will become active participants in the creation of rural assets. The schemes is not merely a wage employment programme but it also focus on the regeneration of village economy in the long term.

In this  paper there will be discussion about the present scenario of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee act and its contribution towards empowering marginalized section of society as well as rural development of the country, the second section describes the policies and strategies adopted by government to achieve rural development. And finally after analyzing the present scenario of MNREGA and practices of government towards rural development we will conclude the research paper with some suggestions and recommendations.