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Structure and National Rural Employment policies

The importance, key facts, permissible works, and some FAQs of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, also known as MGNREGA, are being discussed in this study.

An analysis of the National Rural Employment policies will be done in this study in detail. The importance of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act will be analysed in this study. The objectives of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which is also known as MGNREGA, will be discussed in this study. There are some key facts of the MGNREGA that will be focused on in this study. These key facts will be provided in this study. On the other hand, the Permissible works in the National Rural Employment guarantee policy will also be discussed in this study in detail. 

What is the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act?

The MGNREGA or “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” is an act created by the government of India in 2005. This is also known by the name of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This act helps in providing 100 days guarantee of labour work to the people of rural areas in a “financial year”.

The MRD or “Ministry of Rural Development “is responsible for tracking the implementation of this policy. The aim for which this act has been developed is to empower the rural people. Many unskilled workers are provided to them which can be done by them without prior skill in the field. This has a huge contribution to reducing the rate of poverty in India.

Importance of National Rural Employment policy

The importance of the national rural policies is to help the populations in getting employment so that poverty can be reduced significantly in the states. The “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” has been created by the government of India in order to provide employment to the people under this act.

The main objective of this policy is to increase the livelihood quality in the rural areas and to provide a minimum employment guarantee to the people of the rural areas. However, this policy gives a guarantee to provide employment only for 100 days in a financial year. This act also provides wage employment.

There are many people in the rural areas that are unskilled. This employment guarantee act helps those people by providing 100 days of unskilled employment in a financial year. The cost-sharing is done by the central and state governments. 

The ratio of financial assistance between the central government and the state government of Kerala is 90:10 respectively. On the other hand, another importance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment act is to create sufficient assets for developing the rural areas.

Permissible works in National Rural Employment guarantee policy

Conservation of water to the harvesting of water is a permissible work in this employment policy. Tree plantation is another type of work offered by this employment policy. On the other hand, afforestation is another permissible work in this policy.

Irrigation canals work and provision of the irrigations, bonding of farm and development of land are some of the important types of work which falls under this National Rural Employment guarantee policy. Apart from that, control of floods and protecting the drainage are also important permissible works in this policy.

Key facts of the National Rural Employment policy

There are some important key facts of the MNREGA national rural employment policy. These key facts are

  • It provides a guarantee for 100 working days in a total financial year, but only to the rural unskilled people.
  • It helps the farmers, the beneficiaries of the “land reforms” and other individual beneficiaries.
  • This policy can help the rural people to provide employment within 15 days of application.
  • People can also prefer their own convenient time to start their employment under this act.
  •  It provides the receipt of work within just fifteen days of finishing their jobs.
  • The gram panchayat’s help the rural people to provide the unskilled people employment with the help of this policy.
  • The “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act” also focuses on economic empowerment and social empowerment.

Conclusion

A discussion on the National Rural Employment policies has been done in this study in detail. An overview of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has been elaborated in this study. Various importances of the National Rural Employment policies has been mentioned in this study. There are various permissible works in the national rural employment guarantee policy that can help the unskilled people in the rural areas. Some of the important permissible works have been discussed in this study. The important Key fact of the “Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme” has also been given in this study in detail. It has been analysed that the National Rural Employment policies have a huge contribution in reducing poverty in India.