 bill no 224 of  2016 the  mahatma  gandhi  national  rural  employment guarantee  (amendment) bill, 2016 by dr udit raj, mp a billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—short title and1  (1) this act may be called the mahatma gandhi national rural employmentguarantee (amendment) act, 2016(2) it shall come into force on such date, as the central  government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appoint statement of objects and reasonspara 20 of schedule i of the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005 provides that for all works taken up by the gram panchayats and other implementing agencies, the cost of the material component including the wages of the skilled and semiskilled workers shall not exceed forty per cent at the gram panchayat or the district level, as the case may be since the scheme has come into force, it is observed that there is a great difficulty in maintaining the expenditure ratio in terms of material in the given prescribed limits and in some cases it exceeded to more than fifty per cent the social audit of the scheme implementation has also indicated that the work is not being undertaken within prescribed ceiling in the act so, under the existing limit of forty per cent good quality work cannot be undertaken by the gram panchayat or the district authorities for creating better social infrastructure in the rural areas hence, the bill seeks to increase the material component limit upto sixty per cent so as to enable creation of better infrastructure in rural areashence this billnew delhi;udit rajjuly, 8, 2016 annexure extract from the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005 (42 of 2005) [schedule-i] minimum features of a rural employment guarantee scheme    20 for all works taken up by the gram panchayats, the cost of the material component including the wages of the skilled and semi-skilled workers shall not exceed forty per cent at the gram panchayat level for works taken up by the implementing agencies other than gram panchayats, the overall material component including the wages of the skilled and semiskilled workers shall not exceed forty per cent at the district level     ———— a billfurther to amend the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act, 2005————(dr udit raj, mp)gmgipmrnd—2579ls(s3)—28-09-2016