Grama panchayat nrega

Our economy has been going through the problem of unemployment and joblessness since Independence. Joblessness has often resulted in rural distress forcing people to leave their houses and migrate to urban areas in search of jobs. The Government of India launched various schemes to help the rural poor. They launched Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) in 1999 and the National Food for Work Programme in 2004. The main objective of these schemes was to provide supplemental wages to the rural poor to help them fulfil their basic needs. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) was amongst these welfare schemes. National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme was convened in 2005 and was launched as MNREGA in 2006. To know more about NREGA, delve into the content mentioned below. MNREGA is an acronym for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. MNREGA was launched as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) but was later renamed to Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act by the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. This scheme was officially launched in September 2005 and was successfully implemented on 2nd February 2006. The responsibility of this scheme is shared equally between the state and the centre. The central government provides for the wages of the unskilled manual labour along with 75% of the material cost which also includes the wages of the skilled and semi-skilled workers. This scheme was implemented in ...