THE NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT, 2005
An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the
country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial
year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for
matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth
Year of the Republic of India as follows:
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