Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger is the first and the primary concern of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) . The primary consideration to trigger development should be to maximize work opportunities for the unemployed and under employed. A multifaceted developmental strategy has been adopted to address the needs of the poor by ensuring their basic rights and to promote economic growth. To fight unemployment , poverty and enhance livelihood security more effectively with multiplier effect on Social Capital formation ,Physical Capital, Ecological Synergies, Strengthen Democratic Process and ensure Sustainable Development a new wage employment programme namely National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was formulated in 2005 and implemented in all the states and union territories of India in phased manner from February 2006 .With its legal frame work and rights based approach Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) provides 100 days of guaranteed to every rural house hold whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work with in a financial year . Some 25.15 crore workers under 7.08 crore job cards are registered under the scheme and 2449.25 crore person days have been generated with total expenditure of 425979.42 crore from inception of the scheme (2-2006 to 19-11-2017 ) by providing employment to unemployed unskilled manual workers of rural India .There are several flagship programmes viz Bharat Nirman, Pradhan Mantari Gram Sadak Yojna, Pradhan Mantari Awas Yojna, National Health Mission, Swatch Bharat Mission etc , in spite of all these programmes there are several gaps which MGNREGA can fill and also supplement these programmes under convergence module. Not much research work has been done on the current theme , hence this descriptive cum evaluative study seems to be due therefore conducted under this research paper.
MGNREGA , Social Capital ,Physical Capital, Ecological Synergies, Strengthen Democratic Process, Unskilled Manual Work
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