Sushil Kumar, who won Rs 5 crore in the Kaun Banega Crorepati jackpot, was today named by the Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh as the brand ambassador for its flagship rural job guarantee scheme MNREGA. MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

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