The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 · III — EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEMESANDUNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE

Section 5. Conditions for providing guaranteed employment

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

5. Conditions for providing guaranteed employment.— (1) The State Government may, without prejudice to the conditions specified in Schedule II, specify in the Scheme the conditions for providing guaranteed employment under this Act. (2) The persons employed under any Scheme made under this Act shall be entitled to such facilities not less than the minimum facilities specified in Schedule II. 5. Works creating individual assets shall be prioritised on land or homestead owned by households belonging to the: (a) Scheduled Castes (b) Scheduled Tribes (c) nomadic tribes (d) denotified tribes (e) other families below the poverty line (f) women-headed households (g) physically handicapped headed households (h) beneficiaries of land reforms 2[(i) the beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin.] (j) beneficiaries under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007), and and after exhausting the eligible beneficiaries under the above categories, on lands of the small or marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008 subject to the condition that such households shall have a job card with at least one member willing to work on the project undertaken on their land or homestead. 1. Ins. by the Notification S.O. No. 1888(E) Dated 21-7-2014. 2. Subs. by the Notification S.O. No. 403(E) Dated 25-1-2018. 5. The State Government shall make arrangements for updating the following details in the job card regularly while mentioning the key entitlements under the Act are clearly listed as follows:— (i) number of days for which work was demanded; (ii) number of days of work allocated; (iii) description of the work allocated along with the muster roll number; (iv) measurement details; (v) unemployment allowance, if any, paid; (vi) dates and number of days worked; (vii) date-wise amount of wages paid; (viii) delay compensation paid if any. Demand for work: —

Source: India Code

How this section changed

  1. substituted

    Date not stated in the footnote

    Footnote: 2. Subs. by the Notification S.O. No. 403(E) Dated 25-1-2018.