- government came out with a set of reforms that include payment of unemployment allowance if a legally entitled worker is not given the promised job on time.
-include solutions to reducing delay in payments to workers, providing requisite number of days of work as per demand, improving quality of assets created under MGNREGA and their relevance to the livelihood of the poor and ensuring full wages stipulated under the programme.
-"if you are not provided work within 15 days of your applying for work, you will be provided unemployment allowance," the reform note says that in case the states "fail to provide work within 15 days", workers who applied for work "must be paid unemployment allowance".
-these reforms could be implemented in 2000 of the poorest blocks of the country, especially those with high concentration of SC/ST population,"
