The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was ushered in with the aim of providing legal guarantee for providing at least hundred days of wage employment to those rural households whose adult members are willing and interested to do unskilled manual labour. Initially, hundred days of employment was issued to the rural poor especially during the lean agricultural season so that it improves the socio-economic status of the labour force in rural India. The study also makes a study of the socio-economic characteristics of the sample respondents-the workers participating in the Employment Scheme to know their awareness about the program and to seek and understand the impact of the Scheme in the Gram Panchayats and Mandals that were selected in the district.
Among the 300 respondents, care is taken to include women beneficiaries of the scheme because the program harps on the participation of women also and in fact has allocated 30% of reservation for women under the Scheme. Thus the sample includes 90 women respondents out of the total of 300 respondents which constitutes 30% of the sample respondents.
MGNREGS, labour, Act, Agriculture, rural households
