Mgnrega

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By Shivani Gupta, HNLU Raipur Editor’s Note: MNREGA 2005 was a major piece of legislation which reaffirmed India’s position as being a welfare state. The Act guaranteed at least 100 days of paid work in rural areas in a year. At the time it was widely hailed as definitely securing social justice to a very section of society, which had until then remained largely ignored and sidelined. However, the execution mechanism of this Act has come under severe criticism with widespread allegations of fraud and corruption at all levels of implementation mechanism. This paper attempts to look at the original groundbreaking provisions, the problems that followed and then goes on to suggest some solutions. INTRODUCTION Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a This act was introduced with the aim of improving the purchasing power of semi- or un-skilled rural people of India, irrespective of whether or not they fell below the poverty line. Around one-third of the stipulated work force is women. The law was initially called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and was renamed with the prefix “Mahatma Gandhi” on 2 October 2009, Gandhi’s birth anniversary. In the year of 2011, the program was commonly criticized as no more effective than other hardship decrease programs in the country of India. Regardless of its finest objectives, popular MGNREGA is beset with debate about damaged authorities, lack funding as the source of resources, low quality of...