01554nam a22001457a 4500 524739 524739 240115b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Khoja, Suhail Ahmad and Ibrahim, Yahya 48062 An economic & legal framework of Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005: A critical analysis Kashmir Journal of Legal Studies 10(1), Jul, 2023: p.293-310 The present research paper attempts to evaluate the role of MGNREGA scheme. Particularly, the paper deliberates on the economic and legal dimensions of the scheme. It evaluates the impact of the scheme on income generation, poverty reduction, and female labour force participation rate. Further, the role of scheme during the period of Covid-19 outbreak is analyzed. The paper highlights some interesting results. It is found that the scheme has proved successful in accelerating monthly income and average wage rate. However, it is found that the rural poverty has increased by nearly 4 percentage points to 29.6 percent between 2011- 2017.Furthermore, from 2012-13, it is found that the proportion of women workers participating in MGNREGA has touched a ten year high in 2022. MGNREGA is found to be shock absorbing scheme as the income loss during the pandemic seems to be compensated by increased earnings by a proportion of 20 to 80 percent. Reproduced http://kashmirjournaloflegalstudies.edu.in// b481-4e09-8ecf-05057a46ed5d.pdf Kashmir Journal of Legal Studies EMPLOYMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 399787 IIPA IIPA 2024-01-15 10(1), Jul, 2023: p.293-310 AR130551 2024-01-15 AR