Importance of MGNREGA in Enriching the Rural Life before and after Covid-19: A Review

Abstract

rural life is always a life with lot of the struggle. Mainly, rural life is depends upon the agricultural and agricultural depends upon the rain in addition to other seasonal variation  Most of the employees are landless and marginal farmers, looking for livelihood opportunities and addressing the financial crisis in order to meet the family's basic needs. That is why landless and marginal farmers need such job opportunities that, in terms of income and employment, make them self-reliable. In this way, after introducing new businesses, these workers will be able to achieve self-reliance (on a short and long term basis) and may assist family members during this COVID-19. Moreover , a good number of the migrated laborer from the cities have return back after imposing the lock down and this makes situation really worse in the rural area. In this tough condition of less opportunities of generation of the income , mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act (MGNREGA) emerge as a mean to tackle the situation .