"ROLE OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME: A STUDY OF BANACHIWADI VILLAGE IN RADHANAGARI TEHSIL OF KOLHAPUR DISTRICT"

Abstract Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is one such scheme. It is a landmark in the history of social welfare scheme that is trying to admiration the dignity of labor besides economic security that aims to guarantee the ‘right to work’ in rural areas. MGNREGS provides at least 100 days of guaranteed earnings employment in a financial year to each household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled physical work. MGNREGS programme covers 644 districts all above India through 247643 Grampanchayats covering 13.3 crores households and to supply work to 29 crores workers registered across India. The expenditure for this project during 2013-2014 was Rupees 26665 crores that provided on an average of 46 days work per household which is 50 percent less to that of 100 days of guaranteed employment. An effort is made in this paper to study the efficacy of Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in Banachiwadi Villege in Radhanagari Tehsil of Kolhapur District of Maharashtra where a large proportion in engaged in agriculture. With this as a base of research study the current paper focuses on the role of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rural Employment: A Study Banachiwadi Villege in Radhanagari Tehsil of Kolhapur District in Maharashtra State. A field survey with a sample study of beneficiaries as respondents from 50 BPL households in Banachiwadi villages. The result of the study revealed that the programme has brought the change in the lives of the beneficiaries