- NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme)
- Previously: MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme.
- Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
- Under UPA Govt (Manmohan Singh)
- Employment Assurance Scheme By PV Narsimha Rao Govt. (1991)
- merger with the Food for Work Programme in the early 2000s and renamed MNREGA.
- Provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to rural unskilled labour
- Increase economic security
- Decrease migration of labour from rural to urban areas
