2020
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Srinivas Kumar Sinha
|
|
|
G. C. Murmu
|
|
|
Satya Pal Malik
|
|
|
Narinder Nath Vohra
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Government of India passed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 in September, 2005. The Act gives legal guarantee of a hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to adult members of a rural household who demand employment and are willing to do unskilled manual work.
Detailed explanation-2: -The mandate of the MGNREGA is to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Detailed explanation-3: -Allocation over years In FY22, it went down to ₹98, 000 crore and then to ₹73, 000 crore in FY23. However, the Centre recently sought supplementary grants worth ₹45, 174 crore for the scheme.
Detailed explanation-4: -MGNREGA budgeted and actual expenditure For instance, in 2021-22, while ₹73, 000 crore was allocated to MGNREGS, supplementary allocations made later pushed up the revised estimates to ₹98, 000 crore, as funds had run out in the middle of the year.