Agricultural Labour After the “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantees Programme: with Special Reference in Thanjavur District

Abstract

The position of women is closely related with their economic condition, which in exchange, depends upon rights, roles and opportunity for this involvement in economic actions. In 2005, India established the National workfare programe the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that attempts to guarantee employment to the rural poor when they want it. The Massive system (2017-18 budget of around $7 billion) has historically been plagued by substantial corruption, through double system reforms seem to have cut the leakage of funds over time (Imbert and Papp 2018). The researcher wants to know the current situation of agricultural labourers socio-economic status of after implementation of MGNREGS in Thanjavur. The main objectives of the study is 1) To analyse the social Status of the agricultural labourers after MGNREGS in the study area. 2) To examine the social Status of the agricultural labourers after MGNREGS in the study area. The researcher chose the random sampling method for this research. Both primary and secondary data is used for this study. The primary data was collected with the help of well structured questionnaire for 150 sample respondents from various villages of the Thanjavur District. The secondary data was collected from various published and unpublished sources. This study concludes that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is developing the rural women’s socio-economic status in Thanjavur District.  the women agricultural labourers are suffering due to climate change, low wage rate and gender in equality. This MGNREGS scheme is given a job security for all. This is help to met out their family expenses in the study area. The Government has to improve this scheme to given more employment opportunity like increasing the working days, and increasing the wage rate of the workers.