The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which is now called Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or ‘MNREGA’, has improved employment situation in rural India in the following ways — (i) As this Act provides minimum 100 days of work guarantee to a member of each rural family, it means no family will be without the opportunity of work although only for 100 days. (ii) By providing jobs some assets are being created in rural areas which are further creating jobs like tree plantation, pool construction, etc. (iii) MNREGA has checked mass rural migration to urban centres for jobs and other livelihood opportunities.