The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is legally backed by the MGNREG Act, 2005. A fundamental feature of this Act is that it guarantees 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to any rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The demand for work comes from the households, and the state is obligated to provide it within 15 days of application. If work is not provided, unemployment allowance is to be paid. This characteristic makes it demand-driven.
The Employment Guarantee Act underlying the MGNREGS is a
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