Question
Clarify $MANREGA$ programme.

Answer

  • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act $(MGNREGA):$
  • The objective of $MGNREGA$ is to create assets through public construction activities and to provide employment to one person per family for minimum $100$ days $(7$ hours per day$)$ in a financial year to rural and urban poor as well lower middle class families
  • In this sense, this programme is an employment oriented programme.
  • It has become popular with the slogan 'Our village, our work along with reasonable price!
  • The government has also fixed the wage rate and pays daily wages accordingly.
  • As per this act the person who demands job would be provided job. In case if job is not available then the person will be paid unemployment allowance.
  • Government gives employment in village development projects such as construction of personal tollets personal wells, leveling the land, horticulture, labour work in Indira Awas Yojna, making organic manure, making hen-pen and shades for goats and other animals, fish drying yard, cleaning of canal, works related to water storage, tree plantation on roads, etc.

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