The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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In force · As amended up to 2026-08

Chapter VI: ## MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER VI MISCELLANEOUS 25. Penalty for non-compliance. 26. Power to delegate. 27. Power of Central Government to give directions. 28. Act to have overriding effect. 29. Power to amend Schedules. 30. Protection of action taken in good faith. 31. Power of Central Government to make rules. 32. Power of State Government to make rules. 33. Laying of rules and Schemes. 34. Power to remove difficulties. - SCHEDULE I. SCHEDULE II. 1[THE MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT], 2005 ACT NO. 42 OF 2005 [5 th September , 2005.] An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

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