Abstract
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) played a very vital role by providing wage employment for one hundred days in a year to each rural household whose adult member volunteer to do unskilled manual work. It acts as a fall back measures during these lean seasons by becoming an alternative source of income for these poor household, acting as a social safety net for them. This study analyses the impact of the program on the rural development . Rural development is the overall development of rural areas with respect to food security, economic security, habitat security, health security, nutritional security etc. So, respective index are being constructed to find the impact on rural development. Randomized selection of beneficiary and non-beneficiary communities has been done. A randomisation impact evaluation design was used with households eligible and the rural development index (RDI) is constructed. It has been found that there is significant impact of the program on the rural development.
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