Question

Why is NREGA also called the Right to work ? Explain the objectives of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005.​

Answer 1

NREGA,2005 is a law which is implement by government of India in 200 districts of India.It is reffered to as 'Right to work' because it guantees 100 days of employment in a year by the government to all those who are able to work.

Answer 2

The NREGA, 2005 law is being carried out by the Indian government in 200 districts across the country.

It is known as "Right to Work" because the government ensures that everyone who is able to work will have 100 days of employment every year.

Objectives of NREGA 2005:

• On September 7, 2005, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA), was made public.
• Every rural household with adult members who volunteer to do unskilled manual labor must get at least 100 days of guaranteed pay employment each financial year, according to the Act's provision.
• 200 districts were initially covered by the notification of the Act beginning on February 2nd, 2006, and a further 130 districts were covered during the financial year 2007–2008.
• As of April 1, 2008, the remaining districts have been informed under MGNREGA.
• The MGNREGA has created the biggest employment program in history and is unlike any other pay employment program in terms of scope, structure, and focus.
• Its unique and unheard-of bottom-up, demand-driven, people-centered, self-selecting, rights-based design is unmatched.
• A legal guarantee for wage employment is provided by the MGNREGA.
• It is a program driven by demand, meaning that when wage-seekers need work, it will be provided.
• In circumstances of inability to deliver work promptly and delays in payment of remuneration for work performed, there are legal provisions for allowances and compensation.
• The MGNREGA's self-targeted beneficiary selection method, in which a significant portion of the poorest of the poor and disadvantaged people seek employment under the Scheme, solves targeting concerns.
• The Act encourages States to create jobs by requiring the Center to cover 100% of the cost of unskilled labor and 75% of the program's material costs.
• The MGNREGA is a demand-driven program, in contrast to past wage employment programs that were allocation-based, and resources are transferred from the Center to States based on the need for employment in each State.
• This gives States more motivation to use the Act to fill the job gaps for the disadvantaged.
• Concomitantly, there is a penalty for late delivery of work because the States are then responsible for paying the unemployment benefit.
• Gram Panchayats (GPs) are required to carry out at least 50% of the cost-related tasks.
• This order of financial resource devolution to general practitioners is unprecedented.

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