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MNREGA scheme named after Mahatma Gandhi in the year 2009, provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work as well as work related to unskilled manual work with a minimum assured wage. The act saw its implementation in Karnataka since 2006 covering districts of the state. The objective of this act is to ensure minimum livelihood and food security by providing work for the rural population who don’t have work during the lean period of agriculture sector thereby acting as an additional source of wage employment aiming to eradicate poverty and unemployment. This paper concentrated on to study the performance and progress of MNREGA in Bangalore district. The aim is to focus on to study the job card issued and employment generation in Bangalore district and to analyses the constraints and to suggest remedial measure for improvement of the MNREGA in Bangalore district.