MPPSC 2016 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(B) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, 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. NREGA was scoped up to cover all the districts of India from 1 April 2008.