The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was launched in India to
alleviate people out of poverty by providing them with 100 days of employment. The program
has been successful in providing jobs to five crore people in comparison to any other program. It
has also empowered women by providing employment as well as to the Schedule Castes and
Schedule Tribes. It has also been successful in providing jobs to several migrant labourers during
the covid-19 lockdown in March 2020 in India. Inspite of the successfulness of the program
factors like lack of childcare facilities, delayed payments, lack of awareness etc hamper the
successfulness of the program. Thus, there has overall been a mixed response related to the
successfulness of the program.