Assessment of sustainable livelihood approach towards poverty alleviation through MGNREGA: A study of selected tribal districts of Madhya Pradesh

By creating economic and social infrastructure in rural areas, MGNREG Ais anticipated to increase people’s livelihood security over time. The present study conducted in the Dindhori and Annupur which are tribal dominant districts, of Madhya Pradesh attempts to examine the implementation process of MGNREGA and its impact on the creation of sustainable livelihood for tribes towards poverty alleviation. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to determine the impact of MGNREGA among 640 households in the selected districts. After factor loading calculations, the final items with high factor loading were selected. Statistics were used to analyze the data. For all items, the Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient was 0.917. The socioeconomic effects of MGNREGA beneficiaries varied significantly across the districts in a statistically meaningful way (p, 0.000) and different tribes (p, 0.00), age groups (p, 0.000), gender (p, 0.038), occupations (p, 0.0188) and Education (p, 0.000). The results show that income from MGNREGA work supports small household expenditures, impoverished households’ options for generating money remain limited.