Section 11
Functions and duties of Central Council.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
About this Act
An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto..
(1) The Central Council shall perform and discharge
the following functions and duties, namely:--
(a) establish a central evaluation and monitoring system;
(b) advise the Central Government on all matters concerning the implementation of this Act;
(c) review the monitoring and redressal mechanism from time to time and recommend improvements required;
(d) promote the widest possible dissemination of information about the Schemes made under this Act;
(e) monitoring the implementation of this Act;
(f) preparation of annual reports to be laid before Parliament by the Central Government on the implementation of this Act;
(g) any other duty or function as may be assigned to it by the Central Government.
(2) The Central Council shall have the power to undertake evaluation of the various Schemes made under this Act and for that purpose collect or cause to be collected statistics pertaining to the rural economy and the implementation of the Schemes.
(a) establish a central evaluation and monitoring system;
(b) advise the Central Government on all matters concerning the implementation of this Act;
(c) review the monitoring and redressal mechanism from time to time and recommend improvements required;
(d) promote the widest possible dissemination of information about the Schemes made under this Act;
(e) monitoring the implementation of this Act;
(f) preparation of annual reports to be laid before Parliament by the Central Government on the implementation of this Act;
(g) any other duty or function as may be assigned to it by the Central Government.
(2) The Central Council shall have the power to undertake evaluation of the various Schemes made under this Act and for that purpose collect or cause to be collected statistics pertaining to the rural economy and the implementation of the Schemes.