This draft by Department of Rural Development under Ministry of Rural Development, is on the operational guidelines of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNERGA). This draft covers the suggestions/comments of the state governments. The document begins with the details of the act: the mandate, goals, coverage, the paradigm shift that has taken place and the formulation of employment guarantee schemes.

Following a brief overview of the act the draft has the following chapters:

• Key stakeholders
• Job cards, demand for work and unemployment allowance
• Institutional architecture and human resources
• Capacity building and awareness generation
• Planning of works
• Works and their execution
• Payment of wages
• Partnerships with civil society
• Strategy for vulnerable groups
• Records
• Management Information System (MIS)
• Financing
• Transparency and accountability
• Quality management of MGNREGA works
• Framework for convergence between MGNREGA and other programmes

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