Implementation of MGNREGA In Ambala : Issues and Concerns

MGNREGA is the leading employment generating programme ever started in a country for the development of rural areas. Government of India enacted the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) on August 25, 2005 with the objective of evolving the designs of wage employment programmes more effectively to fight Poverty and unemployment and enhancing the livelihood security of the people in rural areas, whether or not they are below the Poverty line. The Act came into force in 200 backward districts of 27 states of India with effect from 2 February 2006 and extended to 130 additional districts in 2007-08. All the remaining rural areas of the Country had been notified with effect from April 1, 2008. On 2nd October, 2009 it was renamed as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).