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Direct participation of the people in the developmental activities' improves accountability and transparency in the process of identification of beneficiaries. Though the Indian economy is the 5th largest economy in the world in terms of GDP and the 3th by purchasing power parity till there is existing 18 percent of poverty, of these 67 percent are in the rural India. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme stands as a vital pathway for reducing rural poverty and achieving human development in rural India. MNREG scheme is now seen as one of the most promising types of intervention to reduce poverty and empower rural folk by providing guaranteed employment. The present attempt is made to study the impact of NREGS on provision of employment and income generation of rural workforce in Ananthapuramu district, Andhra Pradesh. It is found that there is positively significant effect of the scheme on rural poverty alleviation by providing employment and income generation opportunities in the study area. It is also found that the impact MGNREG Scheme is higher on female than the male labour in the study area.