Environment security and Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREG Act 2005), has support as innovative and reconstructive help to the environment at all over rural India. MGNREGA scheme aim is enhancing livelihood security at national level through the providing 100 days employment to rural household in every year. In India, nearly 70 % population is working in agriculture and its allied activities. Present research paper is trying to look into the various aspects of the MGNREGA and its impacts on environment security. Through gram sabha, works have undertaken which are largely improving water resources, land improvement, soil conservation with sustainable protection. As we know that water is very essential to the environment, the scheme managed the irrigation system and improvement and renovation of traditional water sources, land development and drought. This scheme commenced the works to generate the ground water recharge, soil, biodiversity conservation, sustaining food products, halting land degradation and building resilience to current climate risk such as moisture, stress, delayed rainfall, drought and floods. MGNREGA has been hailed as a scheme that provides ‘sustainable livelihoods’ or ‘green jobs’ to crores of workers engaged in restoring rural environment. This is because the works created under MGNREGA are claimed to have massive potential to improve environmental indicators, for instance, by raising water levels, sequestering carbon dioxide, improving soil quality, etc. The scheme will give excellent outcomes after the better supporting of financial budget for scheme. The present research paper is trying to show the effect of MGNREGA works on environment and sustainable development, and employment generation to households and need of financial grant.