National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005:100 days assured employment every year to every rural household in 200 districts later extended to 600 districts.One third jobs reserved for women.The central government’s National Employment Guarantee Funds.And state government’s State Employment Guarantee Funds for implementation of the scheme.Under the programme if an applicant is not provided employment within fifteen days s/he will be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance.

Narega” has drawn rural women into the labor market in numbers never seen before. At the time of its inauguration, program rules required that at least one out of three workers employed would have to be female. The motivation was simple: Men in India’s workforce vastly outnumber women. Data shows a steady rise in women’s participation over the years. Women now comprise over half the program’s workforce, and accounted for over 55 percent of person-days worked in 2015-16.