Maharashtra  Employment Guarantee Act, 1977.

The Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act, 1977.

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Act ID:	197820
Act Number:	20
Enactment Date:	1978-10-03
Act Year:	1978
Short Title:	The Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Act, 1977.
Ministry:	Ministry of Govt Of Maharashtra
Department:	Planning Department
Type:	STATE
Location:	Maharashtra

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Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Definitions.
Section 3. Guarantee of rural employment to households.
Section 3-A. Employment Guarantee Scheme for rural areas.
Section 3-B. Conditions for providing guaranteed rural employment and facilities.
Section 3-C. Wage rate.
Section 3-D. Payment of unemployment allowance.
Section 3-E. Non-disbursement of unemployment allowance in certain circumstances.
Section 3-F. Dis-entitlement to receive unemployment allowance in certain circumstances.
Section 4. State Employment Guarantee Council.
Section 5. District and Panchayat Samiti Level Committees and their functions.
Section 6. Principal authorities for planning and implementation of Schemes.
Section 6-1A. District Programme Co-ordinator and Joint District Programme Co-ordinator.
Section 6-1B. Programme Officer, Joint Programme Officer, Additional Programme Officer and Special Programme Officer.
Section 6-1C. Responsibilities of the Gram Panchayats.
Section 6-1D. Social audit of work by Gram Sabha.
Section 6-1E. Responsibilities of State Government in implementing Scheme.
Section 6-1F. Grievances redressal mechanism.
Section 7. Deleted.
Section 7-A. Deleted.
Section 8. Deleted.
Section 9. Penalty for drawing unemployment allowance when employed elsewhere.
Section 10. Deleted.
Section 11. Deleted.
Section 12. Establishment of Employment Guarantee Fund and its utilisation for the Scheme.
Section 12-A. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme State Fund of Maharashtra.
Section 12-B. Transparency and accountability.
Section 12-C. Audit of accounts.
Section 12-D. Implementation of Scheme in urban areas.
Section 12-E. Beneficiaries of private lands entitled to subsidies in certain circumstances.
Section 13. Amendment of certain enactments and rule of construction for references to Scheme and Fund in other laws.
Section 13-A. Commissioner’s powers to supervise and review, implementation of Scheme in each Division.
Section 14. Delegation of powers.
Section 14-A. Penalties.
Section 15. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 16. Act to have overriding effect.
Section 16-A. Power to amend Schedules II and III.
Section 16-B . Deleted.
Section 17. Power to make rules.