MGNREGA has played instrumental role in providing safety net for the rural farmers of India. Which of the following can be associated with MGNREGA programme?

1. It provides wage employment to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

2. It focuses on strengthening of natural resource management.

3. It encourages sustainable development in rural and urban areas.

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Solution

MGNREGA Programme provides employment to every household adult member to do unskilled manual work. The major works taken up under Natural Resource Management under MGNREGA include check dam, ponds, renovation of traditional water bodies, land development, embankment, field bunds, field channels, plantations, contour trenches etc. The expenditure on NRM work expenditure has been rising in a sustained manner over the last five years. MGNREAG is the largest social security and public works programme in the world.