Effectiveness of MGNREGA in Alleviating Rural Poverty among Rural Households in Tamil Nadu Dr. Dhanabhakyam M., Shobanageetha K.* Ph. D. Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-641 046 *Author correspondence: K. Shobanageetha Ph. D. Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-641 046 Email: shobanadynamic@gmail.com
Online published on 5 August, 2019. Abstract Economic growth has been the powerful force to fight against poverty across the world. In India nearly seventy percent of the people living in rural areas and thirty percent of them are subsists under chronic poverty. Rural employment generation has emerged as one of the most crucial socio economic issues in India in recent years. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the world's largest employment generation programme in India for rural poverty alleviation. The present study assessed the effectiveness of the programme on socio economic condition of the beneficiaries, their awareness, satisfaction and problems faced by them are also analysed. The study area confined to three districts namely Tirunelveli, Salem and Virudhunagar, outcome reveals that awareness level of the beneficiaries differed significantly among gender, age, educational qualification, type of family and size of family. Delay in payment of wages is the foremost problem faced by the beneficiaries followed by inadequacy of fund released by the government. Thus the state and central government should take necessary step to make adequate and prompt delivery of wages to the beneficiaries at time. Top Keywords Economic growth, Poverty alleviation, Employment generation, Awareness, Satisfaction. Top |