Consider the following about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 MGNREGA...........

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Consider the following about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA).

1. The Village Panchayat issues job cards to every registered individual.

2. Rural construction projects are generally handed over to private contractors who are made responsible to the Gram Panchayat.

3. The cost of the scheme is shared between the Centre and the States.

Select the correct answer using the codes below.

1 and 2 only

2 only

1 and 3 only

1, 2 and 3

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Explanation:

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) guarantees 100 days of employment in a financial year to any rural household whose adult members are
willing to do unskilled manual work.
Statement 2: Use of contractors in commissioning works is strictly banned under the Act

Learning: The objective of the Act is to create durable assets and strengthen the livelihood resource base of the rural poor.
??The choice of works suggested in the Act address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation, soil erosion, so that the process of employment generation is on a sustainable basis.
??Works suggested in the Act addresses causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation and soil erosion, so that the process of employment generation is maintained on a sustainable basis.