2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about MGNERA 2005? (A) Guarantees 100 days of employment (B) Provision of unemployment allowance if employment is not provided by the government. (C) 1\4th employment is reserved for women. (D) Employment is provided in the village or nearby village.
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In his famous talisman, Mahatma Gandhi urged us, in our moments of doubt, to recall the face of the poorest
person we may have seen and ask ourselves whether the step we are contemplating is likely to be of any
use to him or her. It is in this spirit that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) was launched in February 2006. It is perhaps the largest and most ambitious social security
and public works programme in the world. While market-oriented reforms are necessary to generate faster
growth and larger public resources, they do not, on their own, guarantee participatory and equitable growth.
Active social policies (such as the MGNREGA), far from detracting from economic reforms, complement them
in an essential way.
Notwithstanding some initial scepticism about the practicality and viability of this initiative, six years later,
the basic soundness and high potential of the MGNREGA are well established. That, at any rate, is one of the
main messages emerging from this extensive review of research on MGNREGA. It is also a message that comes
loud and clear from the resounding popularity of MGNREGA—today, about one-fourth of all rural households
participate in the programme every year.
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