MGNREGA guarantees how many days of wage employment in a financial year, and to whom?

Sixty days to every unemployed adult, rural or urbanCorrect answerYour answerOne hundred days to every individual rural workerCorrect answerYour answerTwo hundred days to every household below the poverty lineCorrect answerYour answerOne hundred days to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual workCorrect answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer D

Correct answer: D

The guarantee is of a hundred days in a financial year, and it is given to a household rather than to a person.
The household must have adult members volunteering to do unskilled manual work.
The scheme is rural only; there is no urban counterpart in the same Act.

Worth noting

If work is not provided within fifteen days of the demand, the applicant becomes entitled to an unemployment allowance from the state.

Concept: What MGNREGA guarantees
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