Question : EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME

(a) Whether the Government is implementing its promise for `Employment Guarantee Scheme`;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the Government is creating a `non-lapsable National Employment Guarantee Fund` and propose to levy job guarantee tax;

(d) if so, the details thereof;

(e) whether the State Governments are also expected to come up with their share of revenues to fund the scheme;

(f) whether existing schemes for employment would be merged in it; and

(g) if so, the details thereof?

MINSTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. RAGHUVANSH PRASAD SINGH)

(a) to (g) The proposal to enact a Central Legislation for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which aims to enhance livelihood security to poor households in rural areas by providing atleast 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to every poor household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual labour, is under consideration of the Government.