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“Women’s Economic Agency Through MGNREGA: An Analytical Study in Majuli District, Assam.”

Author(s) Mr. Dullabh Borah, Dr. Baiarbha Massar
Country India
Abstract This paper studies how the design of India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) shapes women’s economically empowered in a river-island district. Investigator built a simple agency index control over earnings, saving, mobility, household decisions and related it to four programme levers: worksite proximity, wages paid into a woman’s own bank account, wage timeliness (within fifteen days), and childcare on site, plus women’s site leadership. Multilevel models point to three steady predictors of higher agency: own-account payments, on-time wages, and functioning day care facility. Greater distance to the nearest active worksite is not helpful and is often linked to lower agency and fewer independent bank trips. Effects are stronger in high flood/erosion hamlets. Mediation tests suggest that own-account payments raise agency mainly by giving women firmer control over earnings. Qualitative data add texture: women spoke about late wages, no childcare, and unsafe travel to banks in high water. The evidence points to a tight, practical package for fragile ecologies: pay women on time into their own accounts, site works near settlements, fund crèches, and back women’s leadership. These measures convert legal guarantees into everyday control over livelihoods.
Keywords MGNREGA, Women’s Economic Agency, Women Empowerment, Direct Benefit Transfer, Childcare.
Field Sociology
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-10-15
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.57992
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