1. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest social security scheme in the world that guarantees 100 days of unskilled manual work to all rural households in India.
2.The MGNREGA actually gives rural households the right to work. It makes obligatory for the State to give them work on demand.
3.Household could actually sue the states for not doing so. The work is usually on projects to build durable assets like roads, canals, ponds, wells etc.,