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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act represents a significant shift in India’s approach to rural development by recognizing employment as a legal right rather than a welfare concession. The development sequence of the programme can be traced to the historical context of rural poverty, unemployment, and earlier wage employment schemes. In the decades following Independence, rural India faced chronic underemployment, seasonal migration, and vulnerability to droughts and agrarian distress. Programmes such as the Rural Manpower Programme, Food for Work Programme, National Rural Employment Programme, Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, Employment Assurance Scheme, and Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana were introduced at different stages. While these schemes generated employment, they were largely supply-driven, discretionary in nature, and often suffered from irregular funding, leakages, and weak accountability. The need for a rights-based, demand-driven framework gradually gained recognition among policymakers and civil society, particularly after repeated droughts in the 1990s and early 2000s exposed the limitations of existing safety nets. This context led to the enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005, which came into force initially in 200 districts during 2006. The Act marked a departure from earlier programmes by legally guaranteeing at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. In 2007–08, the programme was extended to an additional 330 districts, and by April 2008 it covered the entire rural area of the country. In 2009, the Act was renamed as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, symbolically linking it to the Gandhian ideal of dignity of labour and social justice. Over time, operational guidelines were revised to strengthen transparency, decentralization, and community participation. Provisions such as time-bound employment within fifteen days of demand, unemployment ___ ________ _______ _____ _________ ______.
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