Using public employment as a social security measure and for poverty alleviation measure in rural areas has a long history in India. According to the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007–12), the number of Indians living on less than $1 a day, called Below Poverty Line (BPL), was 300 million that barely declined over the last three decades.The Act is to be implemented by the State Government, with funding from the Central Government.The work entitlement of ‘100 days per household per year’