MGNREGS as a Tool of Financial Security among People During Pandemic Covid19: Study in Peringamala Grama Panchayath

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guaranty scheme was launched in India in 2005 as a vision to poverty eradication. It provides 100 working days of unskilled labor on public project works. The scheme was passed in order to reduce the condition of unemployment by providing job for each adult. It was set up ambitiously for decline the rate of poverty in rural area which was unbalanced with the urban sector. Then the mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guaranty act was passed in 2005. India, where a large number of farmers suicide by leaving their family in debt and a state of helpless condition, the act was a hope to change the situation. It was not constructed in sudden process. It was done in a decentralization process in which specialists from grass root level are participated.