Question

What are the main features of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act 2005?
Answer:

Answer 1

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), also known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) is Indian legislation enacted on August 25, 2005. The MGNREGA provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage. The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), Govt of India is monitoring the entire implementation of this scheme in association with state governments

Answer 2

1) It provides 100 days of assured employment every year to rural household         in 600 districts .

2) 1/3 of the jobs would be reserved for women .
 
3) The central and the state government provides the fund for this scheme.