Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

AN OVERVIEW OF ENHANCING LIVELIHOOD SECURITY IN RURAL AREAS THROUGH MGNREGP

Dr. Mrs. P. Selvamani

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (or, NREGA No 42, later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act", MGNREGA), is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the ‘right to work‘. It aims to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The act was first proposed in 1991 by P.V. Narasimha Rao. In 2006, it was finally accepted in the parliament and commenced implementation in 625 districts of India. Based on this pilot experience, NREGA was scoped up to covered all the districts of India from 1 April 2008. The statute is hailed by the government as "the largest and most ambitious social security and public works programme in the world". In its World Development Report 2014, the World Bank termed it a "stellar example of rural development".

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Dr.Mrs.P.Selvamani, AN OVERVIEW OF ENHANCING LIVELIHOOD SECURITY IN RURAL AREAS THROUGH MGNREGP, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-3, MARCH-2018

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