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 21: State Employment Guarantee Fund.
    (1) The State Government may, by notification, establish a fund to be called the State Employment Guarantee Fund for the purposes of implementation of the Scheme.
     (2) The amount standing to the credit of the State Fund shall be expended in such manner and subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed by the State Government for the purposes of implementation of this Act and the Schemes made thereunder and for meeting the administrative expenses in connection with the implementation of this Act.
     (3) The State Fund shall be held and administered on behalf of the State Government in such manner and by such authority as may be prescribed by the State Government.
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