In 2006, GOI launched the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (later renamed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, MGNREGA) to promote rural employment.Using government reported data, this brief reports on MGNREGAprogress along the following parameters:a) Trends in...

The National Rural Employment Guarantee System NREGS is a social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. It aims to ensure livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members...

This paper analyses the extent to which the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) impacted women in rural areas. The paper achieves this goal by exploring and comparing various different research papers on the implementation of MGNREGA. The results are divided...