Under MGNREGA, an unemployment allowance becomes payable if work is not provided within how many days of the demand?
- A.7 days
- B.15 days
- C.30 days
- D.45 days
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, fifteen days. The Act requires that employment be given within fifteen days of an application for work, and if the administration fails to do so, the state government becomes liable to pay an unemployment allowance to the applicant.
Options A, C and D are ordinary administrative periods offered to confuse the candidate; none of them appears in this provision. This fifteen day rule is what converts the promise into a legal entitlement, because a failure to provide work carries a cost for the government rather than simply going unmet. Along with it, remember the guarantee of one hundred days in a financial year, the household as the unit of the guarantee, the year of the Act, 2005, and the requirement that the work be unskilled manual work that the adults of the household volunteer to do.
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Practice Questions
View allMining is classified under which sector of the economy?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
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Mining takes a product straight out of nature without changing its form, exactly as farming, fishing and forestry do, and every activity of that kind is placed in the primary sector.
Read the full explanation →Which sector of the economy is also known as the service sector?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Public sector
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It produces no goods at all; it provides services such as transport, storage, communication, trade, banking, insurance, education, health care and administration, which is why it is commonly called the service sector.
Read the full explanation →Disguised unemployment is most commonly found in which sector in India?
- A.Agriculture
- B.Information technology
- C.Banking
- D.Mining
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On a small family holding every member of the household may work on the land even though the work needs far fewer hands; if some of them were withdrawn, total output would not fall.
Read the full explanation →How many days of wage employment in a financial year does MGNREGA guarantee to a rural household?
- A.50 days
- B.100 days
- C.150 days
- D.200 days
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, passed in 2005, guarantees one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Read the full explanation →Which sector employs the largest share of India's workforce?
- A.Primary sector
- B.Secondary sector
- C.Tertiary sector
- D.Quaternary sector
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Agriculture and its allied activities still give work to the largest number of Indians, even though the sector's contribution to national income is far smaller than that share of employment would suggest.
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