National Rural Employment Gurantee Act

India has been taking ample of measures to alleviate poverty and achieve the goal of rural development since its independence. All such programmes, measures and schemes can be divided into two categories ? asset endowment schemes and employment generation schemes. Needless to name them all, however, employment related programmes which gained popularity were Food for Work in 1970s RLEGP in 1980s, Jawahar Rojgar Yogana in 1990s and many others. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Commonly known as NREGA, has bee the recent and most effective attempt for employment generation with almost giving right to work to the rural poor.