Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is considered as “Silver Bullet” to eradicate the twin chronic problems of poverty and unemployment. It is one of the largest wage employment schemes in human history which provide employment of 11.56 crores people only in 2018-19. The Scheme created huge impact in the rural economy through assets creation which supports rural livelihood and strengthening daily activities of villagers. In Meghalaya, Many villages in the past never dreamt of having roads, footpaths, footbridges, community washing facilities, irrigation facilities but MGNREGA had blessed the villagers through these importance assets. Various studies found a positive impact of the Scheme on employment, income, migration, poverty reduction, gender equality; improve in standard of living and environment conservation. The basic idea of the Government through MGNREGA was to empower villagers to be self govern in term of planning, surveying, executing and monitoring infrastructural development in the community. Initially, no individual assets were created, but recently the number of individual assets surpasses other category of assets and high productivity is expected from these assets. The number of persons and households employed under the Scheme has shown a positive trajectory for the last decade. 

KEY WORDS: MGNREGA, Rural Employment, Infrastructure Development, Assets, Meghalaya.