A study on Mgnrega: employment generation for tribal and schedule caste of Rajasthan

The National Rural employment Guarantee Act 2005 is a landmark initiative in the history of poverty reduction strategies in India. The act providing unskilled wage work to the poor at the bottom addresses the worst form of poverty in the rural India. The Act provides a legal Guarantee of 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work at the minimum wage rate notified for agricultural labour prescribed in the State or else an unemployment allowance. The objective of the Act is to supplement wage employment opportunities in rural areas and in the process also build up durable Assets. The objective of the paper is to examine the extent to which the intended programme has reached the tribals and schedule cast people in terms of employment generation, asset creation and wage accruals through involving MGNREGA The reference period for the analysis is from 2016-15 to 2012-13. The data is collected from secondary sources for this study it includes the information available on the official websites of MGNREGA and Simple averages, ratios, and percentages have been used to carry out my objective. The major findings of the study are no household in tribal of the village completed 100 days employment programme, above 50 % employment sharing by the tribal women in every year in this village.