Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Balasubramaniam P, Sriram N, Shanjeeika V, Mohanraj V and Divya G

Abstract:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the largest rights-based social protection initiative, provide basic income assurance to a large number of beneficiaries. In this sense the scheme is the flagship programme of the Government of India as it provides statutory right to employment to every rural household in a financial year. The present study was conducted in Panamarathupatty block of Salem district. In this block, five major revenue villages viz., Kammalapatti, Kuralnatham, Nazhikkalpatti, Thumbalpatti and Vazhakkuttapatti were selected with the background of more worksite participation of beneficiaries in MGNREGA work. Ten officials were selected randomly from each village, thus comprising 50 officials. The constraints were ranked by Henry Garrett ranking technique.It was found that the major constraint faced by the officials were lack of timely training, non- availability & delay in release of funds in time, lack of technical facilities.