Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

Question 1

introduced when

Answer 1

in September 2005

Question 2

The Act provides a legal guarantee of providing minimum ____ days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household, whose adult members are interested to do unskilled manual work.

Answer 2

100

Question 3

It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) under which GoI and state governments provide financial
assistance in the ratio of _____, respectively

Answer 3

90:10

Question 10

As per the scheme, at least _____ of wage seekers should be women.

Answer 10

1/3rd (33%)

Question 11

The scheme is being implemented through _______.

Answer 11

Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)

Question 12

The Block Programme Officer (BPO) is required to allot ____ of work in terms of cost to the Gram Panchayat (GP).

Answer 12

50%

Question 13

Under the scheme, ______ recommends work and the GP identifies or approves the works for implementation

Answer 13

Gram Sabha (GS)

Question 14

About Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD):
Union Minister– ______ (Constituency- Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, MP)

Union Minister of State (MoS)- Chandra Shekhar Pemmasani (Constituency- Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, AP);
and Kamlesh Paswan (Constituency- Bansgaon, Uttar Pradesh, UP)

Answer 14

Shivraj Singh Chauhan