The study looked at how a government program called MNREGA affected the lives of people in West Bengal. They surveyed 200 beneficiaries and found that after joining MNREGA, most of them had better food, income, housing, health, and environment security. Before MNREGA, 80.5% of the beneficiaries had low livelihood security, but after joining, 82.5% moved up to medium livelihood security. So, MNREGA helped improve the livelihoods of the beneficiaries in the study area.