Study on the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with special reference to women beneficiaries in Madukkari block, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India (MGNREGA) was passed to “provide for the enhancement of minimum wage security of the households in rural areas of the country, by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every year to every household whose women members to do unskilled manual work”. The MGNREGA ensures on demand one hundred days of employment in a year to a household at the minimum wage for rural households. The MGNREGA is based on twin principles of universality and self-selection. The Act places enforceable obligation on the State and gives power to rural women labourers. As a legal right to work, MGNREGA related with previous employment generation schemes in several aspects. This study examines the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on rural women in Coimbatore.

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