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Impact of MNREGA in Transforming Lives of Rural Women


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1 Department of Home Science, University College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
2 Department of Home Science, Govt. Meera Girl’s College, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
     

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Rural women are key agents for development. They play a catalytic role towards achievement of transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. In the interest of long term development it is essential to facilitate women empowerment. To achieve the empowerment of women the government of India introduced different programmes. One such programme focusing on unskilled based wageemployment is MGNREGA. Besides meeting out the goal of social protection and livelihood security, MGNREGA promises so much from perspective of women empowerment.In this paper, based on the secondary data an attempt has been made to comprehensively understand the impact of MNREGA in transforming lives of rural women viagainful employment generation.

Keywords

MNREGA, Empowerment, Rural Women, Employment Generation.
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Authors

Charu Sharma
Department of Home Science, University College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
Kusum Mittal
Department of Home Science, Govt. Meera Girl’s College, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India

Abstract


Rural women are key agents for development. They play a catalytic role towards achievement of transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. In the interest of long term development it is essential to facilitate women empowerment. To achieve the empowerment of women the government of India introduced different programmes. One such programme focusing on unskilled based wageemployment is MGNREGA. Besides meeting out the goal of social protection and livelihood security, MGNREGA promises so much from perspective of women empowerment.In this paper, based on the secondary data an attempt has been made to comprehensively understand the impact of MNREGA in transforming lives of rural women viagainful employment generation.

Keywords


MNREGA, Empowerment, Rural Women, Employment Generation.

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