CASIRJ Volume 7 Issue 9 [Year - 2016] ISSN 2319 – 9202 International Research Journal of Commerce Arts and Science http://www.casirj.com Page 58 Achievement and Constraints of MGNREGA in Sikkim. Karma Loday Tamang 1 , Bhuwan Chhetri 2, Sandhya Devi Thapa 3 1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, Sikkim Govt. College, Gyalshing, West Sikkim 2 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Commerce, Sikkim Govt. College, Tadong, East Sikkim 3 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography,Sikkim Govt. College, Tadong, East Sikkim Email: karmalodaytamang@yahoo.com/ bhuwansoreng2gmail.com/palmotenzing@rediffmail.com Abstract The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. The main and immediate objectives of the act is to enhance livelihood security to the rural areas by providing at least 150 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteers to do unskilled manual work.Sikkim, a small state of north-east India has the population of only 6.07 lakhs (2011 census)It is remotely located in the north-eastern part of the country with no air or rail connectivitywithin a radius of 100 km from the state capital. The MGNREGA in Sikkim was implemented from 2 nd February 2006 in North Sikkim, from 1 st April 2007, in South and East district and 1 st April 2008 in the whole state. The MGNREGA- demand driven scheme has its focus on the works relating to water conservation, drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation), land development, flood control/protection (including drainage in waterlogged areas) and rural connectivity in terms of all weathered roads. Despite formidable mountain- specific constraints, the state has been able to create supplementary income among the people in the rural Sikkim, Ensuring social safety, Improvement of primary and secondary activities,Enhancement of food security etc. Sikkim has also been able to win some national awards. This paper mainly focuses on the achievements made by the scheme so far and also to highlight the various constraints of this scheme in Sikkim.The study is based on secondary sources for the collection of information and the findings will be shown by using various statistical techniques such as average, statistical diagrams etc. Key words: MGNREGA, Achievement, Constraints, Sikkim, Introduction Rural development is a vast sector that encompasses infrastructure creation, sustainable livelihoods, and decentralized governance. Mountain landscapes, with their inherent constraints of remoteness, sensitive ecosystem, and marginality, pose unique challenges to rural development. The Government has framed different policies and programmes to accelerate the rural development hence; MGNREGA is one such program, implemented in Sikkim in the year 2006. The state faces problems of poverty and unemployment with low socio-economic