The following are the provisions of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005.
(a) It guarantees 100 days of regular employment per rural household per year to those willing to work.
(b) If work is not provided within 15 days, applicants are entitled to an unemployment allowance, i.e. one-third of the wage rate for the first thirty days, and one half thereafter.
(c) The Act is to come into force initially in 200 districts, and is to be extended to the whole of rural India within five years of its enactment.
(d) One-third of the jobs are to be reserved for *****.
(e) Labourers are entitled to various facilities at the worksite such as clean drinking water, shade for rest, emergency health care etc.
