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 20: National Employment Guarantee Fund.
    (1) The Central Government shall, by notification, establish a fund to be called the National Employment Guarantee Fund for the purposes of this Act.
     (2) The Central Government may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, credit by way of grants or loans such sums of money as the Central Government may consider necessary to the National Fund.
     (3) The amount standing to the credit of the National Fund shall be utilised in such manner and subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
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