Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

Year: 2005

Enactment Date: 2005-09-05

Long Title: 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..

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Rural Development

Section 9: Disentitlement to receive unemployment allowance in certain circumstances.
    An applicant who--
         (a) does not accept the employment provided to his household under a Scheme; or
         (b) does not report for work within fifteen days of being notified by the Programme Officer or the implementing agency to report for the work; or
         (c) continuously remains absent from work, without obtaining a permission from the concerned implementing agency for a period of more than one week or remains absent for a total period of more than one week in any month,shall not be eligible to claim the unemployment allowance payable under this Act for a period of three months but shall be eligible to seek employment under the Scheme at any time.
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