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Too many aspirants for MGNREGS jobs:
- The COVID-19 induced reverse migration has brought many families to their native places.
- The onus is now on creating more person days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
- The sheer magnitude of reverse migration makes it very tuff for the administration to create jobs for all under a single scheme i.e. MGNREGS.
About MGNREGA 2005:
- The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), guarantees 100 days of unskilled manual work to all rural households in India.
- Aim: To enhance the livelihood security of people in rural areas.
- Applying for a job card:
(1) A household has to apply for a MGNREGA job card from their Gram Panchayat (elected village council).
(2) Each household is entitled to one job card. However, each card can have any number of names on it from that household.
Work under MGNREGA:
- Under the Act every Gram Panchayat (village council) should have an annual MGNREGA plan.
- The types of unskilled work which households are eligible to undertake under the MGNREGA could include constructing roads, dams, wells, plantations or developing land.