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Abstract
Employment opportunities for rural peasants in the labour market are limited, irregular and poorly paid. In this situation, MGNREGS offer job and helps to maintain food among the rural people. The main objective of the MGNREGS is to provide guaranteed employment of 100 days to adult member of any rural household to do any public work related unskilled manual work at a statutory minimum wage. The main objectives of the present study are to know the socio-economic background of the respondents in the study area, to analyse the additional employment created through NREGS in Sivagangai district and to evaluate to what extend livelihood security in terms of income, household expenditure agricultural operation is guaranteed through NREGS. Sivaganga district is taken up for the present study. It is one among the backward districts of Tamil Nadu. The study used both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected by using pretested interview schedule during the April to June of 2014. 480 sample respondents were selected by using multistage random sampling technique. The secondary data were collected from the NREGA website (http://www.nrega.nic.in). The collected data were processed, tabulated and inferences were