This Act, consisting of six Chapters and two Schedules, divided in 34 Sections, establishes the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. It establishes that for the purposes of giving effect to the provisions of section 3, every State Government shall make a Scheme for providing not less than one hundred days of guaranteed employment in a financial year to every household in the rural areas covered under the Scheme and whose adult members. By application, volunteer to do unskilled manual work subject to the conditions laid down : provided that until any such Scheme is notified by the State Government, the Annual Action Plan or Perspective Plan for the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) or the National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP) whichever is in force in the concerned area immediately before such notification shall be deemed to be the action plan for the Scheme for the purposes of this Act.
Inde · 2005-09-07