- All rural households in rural areas, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work eligible.
- Job card under the act is the right of every rural household wiling to work on NREGA and applies for it,
- Choice of works done through village level plans and 50% or more of work to be executed by PRI’s
- work focused on areas like water conservation, land development, provision of irrigation facility on private land of people below the poverty line. Rural con nectivitY.
- Unemployment allowances to be paid if government unable to provide jobs within 15 days of application. Social audit made mandatory
- Provides legal guarantee for 100 days of wage employment to every household in the rural areas of the country each year.
- It combines the twin goals of providing employment and asset creation.
