Awareness of job card holders under NREGA scheme

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme aims at enhancing the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage employment in a financial year, to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The objective of the scheme is to create durable assets and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural poor. The choice of works suggested in the Act addresses causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation, soil erosion etc. so that the process of employment generation is sustainable The present study was conducted in Imphal-west district of Manipur using the Ex-post facto research design. Total 120 respondents (Job Card Holders) were selected based on proportional random sampling method. The data were collected using structured interview schedule. The data collected were then analyzed using appropriate statistical tools namely, frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation simple correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. It was found that the Social participation and housing type were positive and significantly related with awareness of the job card holders on NREGA. It may be concluded that there is a need of sound and sustainable strategy to improve the awareness of the job card holders on NREGA through organizing effective and efficient training programme regarding guidelines of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) its objective, goals, silent features and most importantly about the rights given to the job card holders under NREGA.