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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was introduced in India in the year 200-06. The main motive of this scheme is that provide employment to the rural job seeks and abdicates poverty in rural areas MGNREGS makes a new history as well as the history of decentralization in India. It promises too days of work per year to all rural households. The work is to be made available to anyone who demands it with an application to work, failing which the state government is liable to pay an unemployment allowance. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is considered as a “Silver Bullet” for Eradicating rural poverty and Unemployment, by way of generating demand for productive labour force in villages. Rural poverty and unemployment in India have grown in an unprecedented manner during the last few decades. There is a growing incidence of illiteracy, blind faith hungry people, malnourished children, anemic pregnant women, farmer suicides, starvation deaths, migration resulting from inadequate employment, poverty, and the failure of subsistence production during droughts. In order to make solution of these problems and to provide livelihood security to rural unemployed, Government of India (GOI) enacted the National rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in 2005.