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The Government of India introduced Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Now the program is implemented in all most all districts in India. MGNREGA is a largest public employment program in the country. This is one of the best successful program in India.The study followed purposive sample method. The study conducted 31 beneficiary households and 10 non-beneficiary (control) households and is based on availability of the households at the time of survey. The study conducted Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Personal Interviews (PI) were collected. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the factors which are influential to participate in the MGNREGA work. The main findings of the study are; Majority of the beneficiary head of the households were illiterates. Whoever the land holding was found very small their participation in MGNREGA works were taken up. The study reveals that the MGNREGA participation rate is high in semi-pucca and Thatched / Kachacha houses in sample households. It indicates that most of the participants were economically poor and socially deprived sections. We conclude that whoever involved fully in agriculture activities their participation rate was very less, villagers who lack work in village and are poor were the only willing to participate in MGNREGA.
Keywords: Households Participation in MGNREGA, Case Study, Karnataka
Introduction
The Government of India introduced Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in a phase wise manner in India. Now the program is implemented in most of the districts of India. Ambasta (2008) explained about that MGNREGA is a largest ever public employment program visualized in human history in the country. This is the one of the best successful program in India. The main objectives of the MGNREGA program was to provide minimum 100 days of unskilled labour work in rural India. To enhance the livelihood security of people in rural areas through providing minimum 100 days of wage employment in every financial year in rural households with unskilled manual work. To improve socio-economic conditions of the rural people in India and reduce the migration from rural to urban areas through providing employment under this program. The main reason to the success of this program in the rural area is due...