Economic Empowerment of Women Through MGNREGA

Abstract

In the area of economic empowerment, there is no doubt that MGNREGA has made dramatic changes in the economic status of women in the village. It has provided employment to women in more than half the households in the village at a wage rate that is much higher than the prevailing wage rate in the local economy. About 64 percent of MGNREGA workers were full time housewives before MGNREGA came into force, and the remaining women were employed in scattered casual work in agriculture (mainly weeding, transplanting and harvesting paddy) and in other manual work. MGNREGA has taken village women to a much higher level in terms of employment and wages. In this article I have study the Economic Empowerment of women through MGNREGA in Uttarakhand State of India.