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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a social security and employment scheme aimed at providing “at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a fiscal year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work”.
It comes under the Ministry of Rural Development and was implemented in 2006.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing the Lower House of Parliament on December 14 this year, claimed that the demand for work under MGNREGA is on the wane.
“There is now very obviously a declining demand for jobs in rural areas. In
