It is the single-largest employment programme in the human history ever. Before NREG, there were many employment generation schemes in India, but these were barely adequate to provide even 20 days of employment to each BPL household, these were mostly allocation-based and not demand-based. Further, these used to be implemented through contractors which led to large-scale corruption.
Parliament in 2005 enacted National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) thereby making it compulsory to state governments to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to each rural household whose adult member volunteers were ready to do unskilled manual work. If, for any reason, an applicant is not provided employment within 15 days, he/she will be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance as specified by the state government. In budget 2009-10, finance Minister reiterated Congress poll promise of guaranteed Rs. 100 a day minimum wage under NREGA.
Other key features of NREGA are—
(a) Implementation through panchayti Raj bodies.
(b) a) Localwork (within5 km radius).
(c) b) Disbursement of wages on weekly basis.
(d) c)33% reservation for women.
(e) d)Labour intensive works (wage material ratio = 60 : 40).
Thus, Bharat Nirman is viewed as an effort to unlock rural India’s vast growth potential and be a key for ushering ina new era. It is epectyed that Bharat Nirman will lead to considerable rural assets creation along with NREGA.
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