A study on role of MGNREGA in empowering rural women in Tamil Nadu

The women empowerment is one of the important concepts for the development in various aspects of women’s life. The concept of women empowerment focuses on social, economical, political, cultural and educational empowerment of women. All the features of women empowerment are inter - related and interdependent. The MGNREGA play a significant role in empowering rural women in India. This scheme become a beacon in the empowerment of the rural women and contributed women to be economically independent and self reliant by creating job opportunity through MGNREGA. In the present paper an attempt has been made to study on role of MGNREGA in the empowerment of rural women in Tamil Nadu. Primary data was collected from a field surveycovering50 respondents in Salem District. Secondary data was collected from books, journals, articles, government reports and other documents.