Concept:The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a rural employment scheme that guarantees 100 days of wage work per year to rural households. The work provided is unskilled manual labour.
Explanation:MGNREGA focuses on unskilled manual work like digging, earthwork, and building rural infrastructure such as roads, water conservation structures, and irrigation facilities.
It aims to provide livelihood security to rural households whose adult members are willing to do such labour.
The programme is demand-driven: employment is given based on the willingness of individuals to work.
Skilled labour (option A) requires specialised training like carpentry or plumbing – MGNREGA does not provide that.
Administrative work (option C) involves management and supervision – MGNREGA has an administrative component for implementation, but beneficiaries only get unskilled manual work.
Technical work (option D) needs engineering or IT skills – MGNREGA does not offer such employment.
Thus, the correct classification is unskilled manual work.
Answer:Option B: Unskilled manual work