Impact of MGNREGP on Women Empowerment

Development of a country is affected by poverty and unemployment. Women empowerment is must to avoid unemployment and poverty. Women empowerment leads to sanitation family development social values and economic independence. Women empowerment and poverty alleviation programmes play an important role in the reduction of poverty. The classical women’s movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a movement by women and for women. They sought fundamental change in gender relations by improving women’s conditions from economic social political and cultural perspectives both in comparison with their traditional situation and in comparison with men. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP) has emerged as one of the important tools for rural development and for combating hunger and unemployment among the rural women. After many years of its completion various states have achieved moderate or minimum success. So considering all facts in view this study deals with the impact of MGNREGP on Women Empowerment in Tiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu India.