SSC
INDIAN ECONOMY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, is an Indian labour law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the ‘right to work’.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Right to work” present under Article 41 of the constitution is enforced under the flagship programme of NREGA (now MGNREGA) by the government of India. The programme entitles every rural household to at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Union government has allocated Rs.72000 crores for The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, (MGNREGA) scheme in 2021-22.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is the largest work guarantee program in the world, was enacted in 2005 with the primary objective of guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households.