Conditions for providing guaranteed employment: The State Government may_ without — THE MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE ACT, 2005

Conditions for providing guaranteed employment: The State Government may_ without

5. Conditions for providing guaranteed employment: The State Government may_ without prejudice to the conditions specified in Schedule II, specify in the Scheme the conditions for providing guaranteed employment under this Act (2F The persons employed under any Scheme made under this Act shall be entitled to such facilities not less than the minimum facilities specified in Schedule II 6 Wage rate: Notwithstanding anything contained in the Minimum Wages Act; 1948 (11 of 1948), the Central Government may, by notification, specify the wage rate for the purposes of this Act: Provided that different rates of wages may be specified for different areas Provided further that the wage rate specified from time to time under any such notification shall not be at a rate less than sixty rupees per day. (2_ Until such time as a wage rate is fixed by the Central Government in respect of any area in a State, the minimum wage fixed by the State Government under section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act; 1948 (11 of 1948) for agricultural labourers, shall be considered as the wage rate applicable to that area 7 Payment of unemployment allowance: (1) If an applicant for employment under the Scheme is not provided such employment within fifteen days of receipt of his application seeking employment o from the date on which the employment has been sought in the case of an advance application, whichever is later; he shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance in accordance with this section. (2) Subject to such terms and conditions of eligibility as may be prescribed by the State Government and subject to the provisions of this Act and the Schemes and the economic capacity of the State Government, the unemployment allowance payable under sub-section (1) shall be paid to the applicants of a household subject to the entitlement of the household at such rate as may be specified by the State Government; by notification, in consultation with the State Council: Provided that no such rate shall be less than one-fourth of the wage rate for the first thirty days during the financial year and not less than oe-half of the wage rate for the remaining period of the financial year. (3) The liability of the State Government to pay unemployment allowance to a household during any financial year shall cease as soon as the applicant is directed by the Gram Panchayat o the Programme Officer to report for work either by himself or depute at least one adult member of his household; o (b_ the period for which employment is sought comes to an end and no member of the household of the applicant had turned up for employment; or (c the adult members of the household of the applicant have received in total at least one hundred days of work within the financial year; or the household of the applicant has earned as much from the wages and unemployment allowance taken together which is equal to the wages for one hundred days of work during the financial year. The unemployment allowance payable to the household of an applicant jointly shall be sanctioned and disbursed by the Programme Officer O such Iocal authority (including the Panchayats at the district, intermediate Or village level) as the State Government may, by notification, authorise in this behalf: 5) Every payment of unemployment allowance under sub-section (7) shall be made or offered not later than fifteen days from the date on which it became due for payment. 5 The State Government may prescribe the procedure for payment of unemployment allowance under this Act_

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