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MGNREGA is one of the flagship programme implemented by Ministry of Rural Development Department (MoRD), Govt of India for eradicating the problem of unemployment and poverty in the rural areas of the country. It is the largest social security scheme in the world implemented through an Act called MGNREGA Act 2005. The mandate of the Act is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The other objective of the scheme is to build durable assets and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural people. The present paper makes an attempt to evaluate the performance of MGNREGA in all the ten Districts of Jammu Division i.e. Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar, Rajouri and Poonch of Jammu and Kashmir State for the year 2016-17 by evaluating various indicators such as Average person days per household, Percentage of SC/ST households provided employment, Percentage of Household completed 100 days of work in a financial year, Percentage of wage paid within 15 days of work allotted as envisaged in the MGNREGA Act. The paper also study the performance of Districts for providing employment to women as the Act provides 33% reservation for women in work force who have registered and requested for work under the scheme. The composite achievement index in respect of all the Districts of Jammu Division is calculated by summing the score of these indicators.