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IND-2005-L-72597
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Title_of_text
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (No. 42 of 2005).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
India
Subjects (Classification)
Agriculture workers
Adopted on (Date of text)
2005-09-05
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Original title
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
Abstract/Citation
Provides that the State Government is to provide to every household, whose adult members volunteer, not less than one hundred days of unskilled manual work in a financial year. Every person who undertakes this work is entitled to receive wages at the wage rate for each day of work.
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2007-05-11 (IND-2007-L-76815)
National Rural Employment Guarantee (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 2007 (No. 23 of 2007).
Amending text(s)
2009-12-31 (IND-2009-L-93589)
National Rural Employment Guarantee (Amendment) Act, 2009 (No. 46 of 2009).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
India Code Information System (INCODIS)
Publisher
Ministry of Law and Justice
Country
India
URL
http://indiacode.nic.in/ichome.asp
File
IND72597.pdf (PDF of Act as adopted)