 bill no 78  of  2010 the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee (amendment) bill, 2010 by shri hansraj gangaram ahir, mp a billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005be  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-first year of the republic of india as follows:—guarantee (amendment) act, 2010 statement of objects and reasonsthe mahatma gandhi 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 chapter iii of the act, the wage rate has been fixed at not less than rupees sixty per day any worker who is provided with work for one hundred days in a financial year can earn a maximum wage of rupees six thousand only it means that the family of the worker would be surviving on just 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 mahatma gandhi 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 wage be fixed at least at rupees one hundred and fifty per day under this acthence this billnew delhi;hansraj  gangaram  ahirjuly 10, 2010 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides for increasing the daily wages from rupees sixty to rupees one hundred and 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 crorea non-recurring expenditure of about rupees fifty crore is also likely to be involved annexure extract from the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee  act,  2005(act  no 42 of 2005) chapter  iii      6 (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:11 of 1948wage rateprovided 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 billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005————(shri hansraj gangaram ahir, mp)gmgipmrnd—3099ls(s3)—03-08-2010