NEWS

Ombudsman App for MGNREGA was recently released for smooth categorization and reporting of grievances

MNREGA

• Launched in 2006
• First time provided a legal guarantee for wage employment
• Considered as one of the biggest social welfare programme in the world
• Legal guarantee for 100 days of wage employment to every household in the rural areas of the country each year

FEATURES

• All rural households in rural areas, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work eligible
• Job card under the Act is the right of every rural household willing to work on NREGA and applies for it
• Choice of works done through village level plans and 50% or more of work to be executed by panchayati raj institutions
• Work focuses on areas like water conservation, land development, provision of irrigation facility on private land of people below the poverty line, rural connectivity etc.
• Contractors are totally banned in NREGA works
• Unemployment allowance to be paid if Government unable to provide jobs within 15 days of application. Social audit made mandatory