MGNREGA and Its Impact on Employment and Poverty Alleviation: Study of Pauri Garhwal District Uttarakhand

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is exceptionally an indispensable tool for fighting unemployment and underemployment inside the rural areas; and for assaulting rural mass poverty and raising the rural problems above the poverty line. The investigation is done in Pauri Garhwal area of Uttarakhand. The district have 15 blocks , Out of those blocks, Kaljikhal block become  purposive because of the most quantity beneficiaries of MGNREGA in evaluation to other blocks of the district . 15 villages were selected on the basis of the maximum wide variety of beneficiaries. Thus 20 beneficiaries from every village have been selected randomly using the simple random approach. Consequently, the total sample as evaluated consisted of three hundred beneficiaries. This study examine the impact of MGNREGA on income and employment, poverty alleviation, awareness and suggestions for improving the functioning of the act.  Data collection is based on primary household-degree panel survey recorded from 2013–2015. Percentage, frequency average and regression and correlation evaluation tools has been used. Out of ten independent variables, family and cast type was found to have a non-significant relationship with annual income. The coefficient of multiple determinations (R2) indicate that the most effective percentage (74.03%) of the variation in the growth of annual income of the respondents which may be explained by means of 10 independent variables. The notably significant F-value reported the confirmation to the validity of R2 (0.7403). The study has concluded that the beneficiaries of MGNREGA show more interest in participating MGNREGA works and their annual income increase significantly.