Question

Describe the main features of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Answer 1

Instructions: Divide the answer into 5 points.

Solution: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is considered as a watershed moment in Government’s effort to improve the condition of the farmers.

• MNREGA was launched in 2006 as a security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work’.
• The Act gives legal guarantee of wage employment to the adult members of rural households.
• It prescribes that a rural household can demand at least one hundred days of employment in one year.
• The work allotted shall be provided within 5 km jurisdiction from the village. Hence, the workers do not have to travel to far off cities in search of work.
• MNREGA also provides for equal payment for men and women.