 bill no  52 of 2007 the national rural employment guarantee (amendment) bill, 2007 byshri hansraj gangaramji ahir, mpa billto amend the national rural employment guarantee act, 2005be  it enacted by parliament in the fifty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the national rural employment guarantee (amendment)act, 2007short title and commencement statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe national rural employment guarantee act, 2005 is being implemented in the selected districts of the country wherein every household in rural areas is being provided with unskilled manual work for not less than one hundred days in a financial year under section 6(1) of the chapter iii of the act, the wages has been fixed at not less than rupees 60 per day any worker who is provided with work for one hundred days in a financial year can earn a maximum wages of rupees six thousand only it means that the family of the worker would be living only with rupees five hundred per monthkeeping in view the rising prices of essential commodities and changing lifestyle, it is virtually impossible for any household to have a decent standard of living on a monthly income of five hundred rupees it is imperative to increase this amount it is impossible to ensure nutritious diet etc at such a meagre wages for the poor families of agricultural workers, tribals engaged in agricultural work for want of nutritious diet, 75 per cent of children are underweight in the country further, in the absence of nutritious diet, the rural populace is becoming victim to infectious diseases hence, the wages provided under the national rural employment guarantee act, 2005 appears meagre and there is an urgent need to increase the wages so as to enhance their purchasing power and intake of nutritious food in order to enable a respectable livelihood and an increase in the intake of nutritious diet of the rural household, it appears reasonable that the daily wages be fixed at least at rupees one hundred fifty per day under this acthence this billnew delhi;hansraj gangaramji ahirapril 18, 2007 financial   memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides for increasing the daily wages from rupees sixty to rupees one hundred fifty the bill, therefore, if  enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is likely to involve an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees ten thousand crore a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees fifty crore is also likely to be involved annexure extract from the national rural employment guarantee act, 2005 (act no 42 of 2005) chapter iii      wage rate11 of 19486 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in the minimum wages act, 1948, the central government may, by notification, specify the wage rate for the purposes of this act:provided that different rates of wages may be specified for different areas: provided further that the wage rate specified from time to time under any such notification shall not be at a rate less than sixty rupees per day       lok  sabha———— a billto amend the national rural employment guarantee act, 2005————(shri hansraj gangaramji ahir, mp)mgipmrnd—1814ls(s1-2007)—07052007