From climate change point of view developing countries will be the easiest who will get impacted by

climate change,

NREGA provides employment to the rural people for 100 days in a year. It’s a demand-based law where
the demand coming from the village is implemented through nrega like demand of pond well etc

Nrega will serve those people who are the most vulnerable and have the least asset, they are the one
who are most vulnerable to climate change. Nrega will heLP THEM TO BECOME LESS VUNERABLE by
providing them jobs and making them more capable and adaptive to climate change.

Implementation of MGNREGA works, especially those related to land and water, create both direct
employment for those who participate and indirect employment through increased irriga-tion, increased
area under crops, increased crop production,and so on, potentially leading to reduced livelihood
vulnera-bility.

Its main objective

1.was to evaluate the impact of mnrega activities related to impact on agriculture productivitiy

2. To identify the opportunities under NREGA towards adaptation and mitigation of the effects of
climate change

3.Growth engine for sustainable development of an agricultural economy Address drought,

deforestation, soil erosion and creation of durable assets.

Majority of works under MGNREGA are directed towards strengthening/managing the Key natural

resource: Soil & Water, land development, and afforesta-

tion, all of which address the causes of degradation of natural

resources. Such works lead to the creation of durable assets.

MGNREGA works have led to enhanced productivity and regen-

eration of the natural resource base, further strengthening its

potential for generating environmental benefi ts. In addition,

soil conservation, fodder development, afforestation, and

drought proofi ng works have sequestered carbon, thus miti-

gating climate change.

The empirical evidence from the 40 sample villages in the

four districts with diverse socio-economic and environmental

conditions shows that MGNREGA works are generating multi-

ple environmental and socio-economic benefi ts. These ben-

efi ts include maintaining or enhancing groundwater levels,

improving the storage capacity of waterbodies, improving

irrigation, increasing the SOC content, and reducing soil ero-

sion. These benefi ts have led to improved water availability

and soil fertility resulting in increased crop production, in-

creased e mployment generation and reduced migration.

further, this study showed that due to the generation of

works, the adaptive capacities of benefi ciary households has

i ncreased, reducing their vulnerability to climate risks. Thus,

a large poverty alleviation programme such as the MGNREGS

is demonstrated to have the potential to deliver a daptation

benefi ts to current vulnerability, even though it is not

designed to. Potential could exist to further enhance

r esilience to long-term climate change, through packaging of

MGNREGS as a programme to build long-term resilience to

f uture climate change, in addition to reducing vulnerability

to current climate risks.

All this was measured on 2 index

Livelihood index

•A reduction in the range of 18.5 to 57.1% in LVI. This reduction could be attributed to

increased crop yields, number of days of employment and wage rates.

Agricultural vulnerability index (AVI)

A reduction in the range of 14 to 58% in the agricultural vulnerability can be observed

for Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh. AVI reduction in Dhar was more than 30% in 6 out

of the 10 study villages. This reduction was mainly due to increased crop yields and

cropping intensity in all the 10 study villages, due to implementation of Kapil Dhara.