Rajalakshmi, S2017-02-202017-02-202014https://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/1599Mahatma Gandhi NREGA seeks to enhance the livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The Act seeks to create durable assets and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural poor. The choice of works suggested in the Act address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation, soil erosion, so that the process of employment generation is on a sustainable basis. On this background, an attempt is made to analyze the awareness and mechanism of getting work of MGNREGA programme. The main ' ' ‘^jectives of the study are to study the socio-economic profile of the beneficiaries, to estimate the awareness of the ogramme and to analyze the mechanism of getting work to be done under this Act The study was conducted in the Thondamuthur block in Coimbatore District and the data is collected with a structured questionnaire. The target group is the person registered under this MGNREGA programme, and the list is received from the President of the Block. The findings of the study revealed that above ninety percent of the beneficiary were women. Most of the people were aware of the programme and they bring their own equipment for the work, and every beneficiary of the MGNREGA act had easy access and received their job card.