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The scheme was ranked as the world’s largest public works programme by the World Bank in 2015.
MGNREGS has the potential to increase wages of casual labour if implemented at its full capacity. Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a fiscal is provided to any rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work on demand.
The scheme was ranked as the world’s largest public works programme by the World Bank in 2015. The scheme provides a social security net for 15 per cent of our country’s population.
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