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MGNREGA - A Way to Meet Rural Urban Disparity

Author(s) Dr. Prakash Chandra Dilare
Country India
Abstract A majority of the poor in rural areas of the country depend mainly on the wages they earn through unskilled labour. They are often on threshold levels of subsistence and are vulnerable to the possibility of sinking from transient to chronic poverty, in the event of inadequate labour demand or in the face of unpredictable crises that may be general in nature like natural disaster or personal like ill-health, all of which adversely impact their employment opportunities. Thus the need to evolve a mechanism to supplement existing livelihood sources in rural areas was recognised early in development planning in India. The Government has implemented wage employment programmes that offered wage employment on public works on minimum wages. In a context of poverty & unemployment, wage employment programmes provide unskilled manual workers with short-term employment on public works such as irrigation infrastructure, reforestation soil conservation, road construction etc. These programmes provide income transfers to poor households during critical times and so also enable consumption smoothing specially during slack agricultural seasons or years. Durable assets created under these programmes have the potential to generate sustainable livelihood. Based on the experience of wage employment programmes the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted to reinforce the commitment towards livelihood security in rural areas. The mandate of the MGNREGA is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year (FY) to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. MGNREGA aims to provide a steady source of income and livelihood security for the poor, vulnerable and marginalized. The Act brings with it huge possibilities of making a difference to the lives of millions of rural households of country. The paper attempts to demonstrate the impact of MGNREGA with special reference to its likely impact to meet rural urban disparity.
Keywords MGNREGA, Rural Urban Disparity, Employment, Infrastructure, Equality
Published In Volume 17, Issue 2, July-December 2026
Published On 2026-11-12
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