Answer the following questions briefly
a) What do you understand by human poverty?
air Who are the poorest of the poor?
ürt What are the main features of the National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act 2005?
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Answer:
a.Human poverty is a concept that goes beyond the limited view of poverty as lack of income. It refers to the denial of political, social and economic opportunities to an individual to maintain a 'reasonable' standard of living.
b.Women, old people and children are the poorest of the poor in the society. They are systematically denied equal access to the resources available in the family. Hence, they are considered the poorest of the poor.
c.The main feature of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (NREGA) is as follow:
It guarantees the 100 days of wage employment in the financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. In this scheme, one-third of the proposed job will be reserved for women.
This scheme will be initially started in 200 districts. Later on, this scheme will be further extended to 600 districts.
If the applicant is not employed within 15 days, then he/she will be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.
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