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2011 Supreme(SC) 527

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR
Centre for Environment and Food Security – Appellant
Versus
Union of India (UOI) – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
Prashant Bhushan, Adv.
Manish Singhvi, AAG, Abhinav S. Raghuvanshi and Milind Kumar, Advs., Indira Jaising and T.S. Doabia, ASG, Sadhna Sandhu, Suroor Mander, D.S. Mahra, Sanjay R. Hegde, Vikrant Singh Bais, B.S. Banthia, Gopal Singh, Anuvrat Sharma, T.V. George, Ranjan Mukherjee, S. Bhowmick, S.C. Ghosh, P.V. Yogeswaran, Advs., Corporate Law Group, H. Wahi, H.K. Puri, Anil Shrivastav, Anis Suhrawardy and Arputham, Advs., Aruna and Co., Kuldip Singh, Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Sapam Biswajit Meitei, S. Thananjayan, Anil Kumar Jha, Asha Gopalan Nair, Balaji Srinivasan, Naresh K. Sharma, Suresh Chandra Tripathy, Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho, Vijaya, A. Subhashini, Kamal Mohan Gupta, K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, Atul Jha, D.K. Sinha, Advs.

ORDER

Swatanter Kumar, J.

1. This Public Interest Litigation has been filed by the Petitioner before this Court for issuance of appropriate directions to the Respondents to ensure proper implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (for short the 'Act') and the schemes framed there under. The Act was enacted to ensure enhancement of livelihood security of households in the rural areas of the country by providing at least hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto. The authorities appointed under the Act are responsible to ensure proper utilization of the funds released by Union of India for implementation of the schemes framed under the provisions of the Act. The Central Government issued guidelines, viz., NREGA Operational Guidelines in 2008 for proper implementation. Petitioner has prayed before us that proper investigation is required to be conducted into cases of non-compliance with the provisions of the Act, schemes framed there under and the guidelines issued by the Central Governmen















































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