Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) on the Beneficiaries

The study was conducted in Bhatkuli Panchayat Samiti of Amravati district of Maharashtra state. The study conducted on impact of MGNREGS on beneficiaries. It was revealed that majority of respondents were middle aged group, educated high school, schedule caste class, marginal farmer, farming + labourer main occupation, half of the beneficiaries under BPL level, nuclear type of family, medium family size, medium level of source of information, low social participation and more than half of beneficiaries had medium impact. Age, education, caste, size of land holding, occupation, annual income, type of family and size of family had positive significant relationship with impact of MGNREGS. Source of information negatively non-significant and social participation had non-significant relationship with impact of MGNREGS.