Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceEconomicsPOVERTY3 Marks
Question
Write a short note on National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, $2005\ (NREGA)$
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Answer
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, $2005\ (NREGA):$
National Employment Guarantee Act got approved in February $2006.$
The objective of this program was to create assets through public construction activities and to provide employment to one person per family for minimum $100$ days a year to rural and urban poor as well as lower middle class families.
As per this act, the person who demands job would be provided job within $7$ days within the range of $5 \ km.$ If the person gets employed at more than this distance then he gets $10\%$ extra wages. In case if the job is not available then the person will be paid unemployment allowance.
Government tries to solve two problems at once. On one hand it provides employment to rural people in off-agriculture season and on the other hand by employing these people in infrastructural development activities it develops the infrastructure of the nation.
On $2nd$ October, $2009, NREGA$ was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act $(MGNREGA)$
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