Abstract
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, is flagship programme of the government that directly touches lives of the poor and promotes inclusive growth. MGNREGA is the first ever law that internationally guarantees wage employment at an unprecedented scale. The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment, and its auxiliary objective is strengthening natural resource management through works that address causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation and soil erosion and so encourage sustainable development. The process outcomes include strengthening grass-root processes of democracy and infusing transparency and accountability in governance. One of them is enabling direct transfer of payments to bank/post office accounts of beneficiaries electronically, resulting in reduction in delays in crediting the bank/post office accounts of the workers and hence the delays in payment of wages.
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