Section 5

Conditions for providing guaranteed employment.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

  • Act 42 of 2005
  • Ministry of Rural Development
  • Department of Rural Development
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..

All sections
    (1) The State Government may, without prejudice to the conditions specified in Schedule II, specify in the Scheme the conditions for providing guaranteed employment under this Act.
     (2) The persons employed under any Scheme made under this Act shall be entitled to such facilities not less than the minimum facilities specified in Schedule II.

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