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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in September - 2005. This scheme is initiated with an objective to attack on poverty through solving the problem of unemployment with the creation of social assets. The prime objective of this scheme is to create community assets through employment generation. At least one adult family members of poverty section of the society are empowered through providing 100 days employment for enhancing their income and making them able to buy their needs and necessity on their own efforts. Provisions for providing employment at door step are made. Such provisions, not only in fuels the process of social empowerment through creation of community assets but encourages the ability as well as efficiency of rural families As far as the achievement of NAREGA is concerned it has widely been accepted that it is the most active, efficient and effective scheme launched during planning era to fight against rural unemployment on the one hand and on the other hand produce community assets. The achievement of such scheme is not only satisfactory but efficiently safeguarding the interest of the rural communities by pulling up them above the poverty line. The creation of social assets is the special essence of this scheme. To insure the easy understanding of the discussion made in the main body of this paper, whole discussion are classified in to following sections- Section � 1st provides introductory note on the topic, Section � 2nd analysis the basic needs and necessity of NAREGA, Section � 3rd highlights the review of literature , Section � 4th gives information about the problem of unemployment and poverty and its remedy in NAREGA, Section � 5th discusses the need and necessity of community assets, Section � 6th narrates the methodology undertaken and Section � 7th describing the primary data collected for testing the hypothesis undertaken and Section � 8th prescribes suggestions with concluding remarks. It could be said that NAREGA is one of scheme of poverty alleviation through the creation of community assets.