ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES: POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT. — Social Science STD 10 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10Social ScienceECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES: POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT.3 Marks
Question
Clarify $MANREGA$ programme.
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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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