Accelerating Inclusive Growth of Socio Economic Empowerment of Women Under Mgnrega: A View

MGNREGA (The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is a quite meaningful and powerful act for rural development in general and women empowerment in particular for the entire nation. The MGNREGA plays an important role in the empowerment of the rural women. It has not only contributed substantially for the increased living and economic conditions but has also leads to self reliance among the rural women. The aim of this paper is to highlight that the empowerment is a useful concept because it emphasizes the idea of women as active agents. Women are no longer the passive recipients of development strategies. But it has been seen that the gender discrimination and gender based violence has continues to be an enormous problem within Indian society. This paper has tried to explore the existence of unequal opportunity for women at workplaces. The present paper has made an attempt to study the participation of women employment through MGNREGA and the economic benefits accrued through women empowerment not to the individuals but to the society as well. This paper aim to reveal as how the implementation of MGNREGA is a powerful instrument for ensuring inclusive growth and has got tremendous potential to bring about far reaching improvements in the socioeconomic life of the women who are rural and poor. The multifaceted character of empowerment implies the there is a need to examine the implications of MGNREGA in all dimensions of women lives. It should not be only confined to limited area of development activity. This paper has concluded that MGNREGA has high prospects of rural development.