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  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Status: In force. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, [3] is an Indian social welfare measure that aims to guarantee the ' right to work '. This act was passed on 23 August 2005 [1] and was implemented in February 2006 under the UPA ...

  3. National Rural Employment Generation Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (NREGS) is an employment scheme in India for providing 100 days guaranteed wage employment for all employment seekers above 18 years of age and willing to do work. The scheme came into force on 1995 in 199 districts in India and extended to another 130 districts later.

  4. Common Service Centres - Wikipedia

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    CSC e-Governance Services India Limited. Common Service Centres ( CSC) ( Hindi: जन सेवा केंद्र) are physical facilities for delivering Government of India e-Services to rural and remote locations where availability of computers and Internet was negligible or mostly absent. They are multiple-services-single-point model ...

  5. Jean Drèze - Wikipedia

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    Jean Drèze (born 22 January 1959) is a Belgian -born Indian [1] welfare economist, social scientist and activist. [2] [3] He has worked on several developmental issues facing India like social welfare, poverty and gender inequality. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, Nicholas ...

  6. State Wide Area Network - Wikipedia

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    A State Wide Area Network (SWAN) is one of the core infrastructure components under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India.The main purpose of this network is to create a dedicated Closed User Group (CUG) network and provide a secured and high speed connectivity for Government functioning and connecting State Headquarters, District Headquarters, Blocks Headquarters.

  7. Minimum Wages Act 1948 - Wikipedia

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    Commenced. 15 March 1948. Status: In force. The Minimum Wages Act 1948 is an act of parliament concerning Indian labour law that sets the minimum wages that must be paid to skilled and unskilled labours. The Indian Constitution has defined a ' living wage ' that is the level of income for a worker which will ensure a basic standard of living ...

  8. MyGov.in - Wikipedia

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    MyGov.in. MyGov [1] ( Hindi: मेरी सरकार, romanized : Mērī Sarakāra) is a citizen engagement platform [2] launched by the Government of India on 26 July 2014 to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country's governance and development. [3] It is aimed at creating a common platform for Indian citizens ...

  9. Mobile payments in India - Wikipedia

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    Mobile payments is a mode of payment using mobile phones. Instead of using methods like cash, cheque, and credit card, a customer can use a mobile phone to transfer money or to pay for goods and services. A customer can transfer money or pay for goods and services by sending an SMS, using a Java application over GPRS, a WAP service, over IVR or ...