Abstract
India is among the 193 countries signed on for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The National Institute for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) is the national coordinating agency for SDGs. The SDG targets have been mapped to various nodal ministries and flagship programmes by the NITI Aayog. The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) is the designated nodal agency for achieving SDG 1, that is, poverty alleviation. MGNREGS has been recognized as a ‘core of the core’ policy to achieve SDGs. MGNREGS was reported in the VNR 2017 by the government of India for its contribution to achieving SDG 1, while the scheme’s contributions to SDG 5, gender equality; SDG 8, decent work and economic growth; and SDG 10, reduce inequalities, were also acknowledged. This chapter explores the efficacy of the policy to achieve the SDG targets.
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