Name of the Scheme : Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Sponsored by : Both: Central & State Government

Funding Pattern
The Scheme is implemented as a Centrally-Sponsored Scheme on a cost sharing basis between the Center and the State in the ratio of 90 and 10 percentages.

Ministry/Department : Department of Rural Development

Description
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme aims at enhancing the livehood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Beneficiaries : Individual,other,

Other Beneficiaries : Rural Person.

Benefit Type : Others,Material

Other Benefits : Employment.

Eligibility criteria
This scheme can be availed by adult members of any rural household who are willing to do public work-related to unskilled manual work at a minimum wage of Rs.100 per day.

How to Avail
The unemployed adults are required to contact the Gram Panchayat in order to avail the scheme.

Validity of the Scheme

Introduced On
02 / 02 / 2006

Valid Upto
27 / 04 / 2011

Reference URL : http://nrega.nic.in/netnrega/home.aspx)