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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
- 01 - Short title, extent and commencement
- 02 - Definitions
- 03 - Guarantee of rural employment to households
- 04 - Employment Guarantee Schemes for rural areas
- 05 - Conditions for providing guaranteed employment
- 06 - Wage rate
- 07 - Payment of unemployment allowance
- 08 - Non-disbursement of unemployment allowance in certain circumstances
- 09 - Disentitlement to receive unemployment allowance in certain circumstances
- 10 - Central Employment Guarantee Council
- 11 - Functions and duties of Central Council
- 12 - State Employment Guarantee Council
- 13 - Principal authorities for planning and implementation of Schemes
- 14 - District Programme Coordinator
- 15 - Programme Officer
- 16 - Responsibilities of the Gram Panchayats
- 17 - Social audit of work by Gram Sabha
- 18 - Responsibilities of State Government in implementing scheme
- 19 - Grievance redressal mechanism
- 20 - National Employment Guarantee Fund
- 21 - State Employment Guarantee Fund
- 22 - Funding pattern
- 23 - Transparency and accountability
- 24 - Audit of accounts
- 25 - Penalty for non-compliance
- 26 - Power to delegate
- 27 - Power of Central Government to give directions
- 28 - Act to have overriding effect
- 29 - Power to amend Schedules
- 30 - Protection of action taken in good faith
- 31 - Power of Central Government to make rules
- 32 - Power of State Government to make rules
- 33 - Laying of rules and Schemes
- 34 - Power to remove difficulties
- SCHEDULE I
- SCHEDULE II
3. (1) Save as otherwise provided, the State Government shall, in such rural area in the the State as may be notified by the Central Government, provide to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work not less than one hundred days of such work in a financial year in accordance with the Scheme made under this Act.
(2) Every person who has done the work given to him under the Scheme shall be entitled to receive wages at the wage rate for each day of work.
(3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the disbursement of daily wages shall be made on a weekly basis or in any case not later than a fortnight after the date on which such work was done.
(4) The Central Government or the State Government may, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make provisions for securing work to every adult member of a household under a Scheme for any period beyond the period guaranteed under sub-section (1), as may be expedient.
