RAS question
MGNREGA (formerly NREGA) provides how many days of guaranteed employment?
Correct answer: (C) 100 days.
MGNREGA guarantees at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.
Explanation
MGNREGA is a rights-based rural wage-employment programme, and its core guarantee is not a one-time benefit or a discretionary target. The PIB FAQ states that the Act mandates at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year for every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. That is why, among the options given, 100 days is the only answer that matches the statutory employment guarantee. The existing Rajasthan-economy relevance comes from the scheme's importance in rural livelihoods and the fact that Rajasthan was among the early implementing states, making the exact entitlement a frequently tested welfare-scheme fact.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 50 days understates the MGNREGA entitlement, which the official FAQ frames as at least 100 days in a financial year.
- (B) 200 days overstates the regular guarantee given in the question; the cited mandate is 100 days of wage employment per financial year.
- (D) 150 days is not the standard guarantee stated in the official MGNREGA FAQ, which identifies 100 days as the mandated period.
Concept
This tests the welfare-scheme entitlement under MGNREGA: the guaranteed number of rural wage-employment days. It recurs in RAS because Rajasthan economy questions often use major rural-development schemes, especially schemes Rajasthan implemented early, as factual anchors.