Milestones - Four Years of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act


As the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act renamed after the father of the nation as the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA completes four years since its launch in 2006, it has covered many a milestones. The objective of the act is to enhance the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing 100 days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The act has made deep inroads in the lives of millions of rural poor generating livelihood opportunities, raising the productivity and creating durable assets in the rural areas.

Highlights of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA

1. Allocation of funds for the current year raised to Rs. 39,100 crores

2. Employment provided to 4.27 crore households

3. Real wages raised to Rs. 100 per day

4. 200 crore person days generated so far, of which women comprise 50%, SCs 30% and STs 22%

5. 8.8 crore bank accounts opened to give wages transparently

6. 34 lakh works taken up in 619 districts.