The impact of mgnrega on the socio economic life of the people in selected blocks of purulia a case study from west bengal

Abstract

Village study is a very old tradition of social sciences particularly in the area of newlinesociology and social anthropology. In India, the tradition of systematic village study newlinestarted and flourished during the British period. The colonial scholar cum newlineadministrator emphasized on village study to understand the socio economical life of newlinethe people. newlineIndia is one of the countries in the world with high level of poverty. It was newlineestimated that one third of the world s poor live in India. The World Bank reported newlinethat 32.7% of the Indian populations are below the international poverty line of US$ newline1.25 per day (Purchasing Power Parity) during 2010. Another 68.7% live on less than newlineUS$ 2 per day. As per report of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development newlineInitiative (OPHI), eight Indian states have more poor people than 26 poorest African newlinenations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African newlinecountries. newlineThe Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act newline(MGNREGA) is one of the important interventions to tackle poverty in rural areas by newlineproviding employment. The program has been introduced through MGNREG Act and