 bill no 128 of 2015 the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee (amendment) bill, 2015 byshri nanabhau falgunrao patole, mpa billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title and commencementa m e n d m e n t of section 22 in section 3 of the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act,2005, after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—5''(1a) notwithstanding anything in this act, every farmer, who gets himself registered under this act in such manner, as may be prescribed, shall be provided work for at least one hundred days in a year, if the place where he is residing and practising farming is declared as an area affected by natural calamity including drought or flood by the state government'' statement of objects and reasonsin our country, farmers constitute nearly seventy per cent of the total populationmany parts of the country face earthquake, hailstorm, cloud bursts, unseasonal rain and other natural calamities farmers mostly bear the brunt of such natural calamities they loose their crops, livestock and many a time their dwelling units and household items including foodgrains despite this, farmers are supposed to repay their loans to the money-lenders whether their harvest is good or not in depression, many of them end their lives thousands of farmers have committed suicide in recent years in the states of maharashtra, andhra pradesh, punjab, uttar pradesh, madhya pradesh, tamil nadu and karnataka indebtedness of our farming community is chronic and a continuing problem which has to be taken care of by the governmentit is the foremost duty of the government to provide work to every farmer under the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme for at least one hundred days in a year in case the place where he is residing and practising farming is declared by the state government an area affected by the natural calamity including drought or floodhence this billnew delhi;nanabhau falgunrao patoleapril  6, 2015 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill seeks to provide work to every farmer, for at least one hundred days in a year, residing and practising farming in an area declared to be an affected are by natural calamity including drought or flood by the state government the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is likely to involve an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees one thousand crore from the consolidated fund of indianon-recurring expenditure of about rupees one hundred crore is also likely to be involved annexureextract from the  mahatma gandhi national rural employment guaranteeact, 2005     3 (1) save as otherwise provided the state government shall, in such rural area in the state as may be notified by the central government, provide to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work not less than one hundred days of such work in a financial year in accordance with the scheme made under this actguarantee of rural employment t o households     ———— a billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005————(shri nanabhau falgunrao patole, mp)gmgipmrnd—298ls(s3)—30-04-2015