This document by Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development provides operational guidelines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005). These guidelines aim at enhancing rural livelihoods by strengthening agricultural productivity.

With a brief note on the Act, in its first chapter, the document has the following chapters:

• Key stakeholders-roles and responsibilities
• Job cards, demand for work and unemployment allowance
• Institutional architecture and human resources
• Capacity building and awareness generation
• Planning for works and preparation of labour budget
• Works and their execution
• Payment of wages
• Strategy for vulnerable groups
• Records
• Management of information system
• Financing MGNREGA
• Transparency and accountability social audit, vigilance and grievance redressal
• Quality management of MGNREGA works
• Framework for convergence between MGNREGA and other programmes
• Organising the workers
• Partnership with civil society
• Strengthening panchayats

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