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Lesson 40:National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

Implementation of the act

1. The Gram Sabha will identify works to be taken up. The Panchayats have the principal responsibility for planning, implementing and monitoring.
2. All agencies implementing NREGA will be accountable to the public for their work.
3. Social audit and Right to Information will apply to each aspect of implementation.
4. Local Vigilance and Monitoring Committee will be set up.
5. The Act will be notified in 200 districts identified by the Central Government in the first phase. Within 5 years it will cover the whole country.
6. Yojana will be financed on 90:10 cost sharing basis between the centre and the state.