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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. Social security in India - Wikipedia

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    Social security in India includes a variety of statutory insurances and social grant schemes bundled into a formerly complex and fragmented system run by the Indian government at the federal and the state level. The Directive Principles of State Policy, enshrined in Part IV of the Indian Constitution reflects that India is a welfare state.

  6. National Informatics Centre - Wikipedia

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    The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecture, design, development and implementation of IT Systems to Central Government Departments and State Governments thus enabling delivery of ...

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. india.gov.in - Wikipedia

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    Launched. 10 November 2005; 18 years ago. ( 2005-11-10) Current status. Active. india.gov.in is the Indian government’s web portal for citizens. It presents information resources and online services from government sources, accessible from a single point. It is also known as the National Portal of India.