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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NREGS in drought-hit areas

NREGS in drought-hit areas

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published Published on Dec 12, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2011
-The Deccan Chronicle
 
In a bid to help villagers find work, especially in drought-hit mandals, the authorities are taking up several works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Godavari districts.

In a bid to help villagers find work, especially in drought-hit mandals, the authorities are taking up several works under the National Rural Employ-ment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Godavari districts.

The government has declared 14 mandals in East Godavari and 15 mandals in West Godavari as drought-hit, and there are proposals to include a few more mandals in the list to extend help to the farmers.

The government issued directions to take up some kinds of work on a priority basis, for the villagers to get work as well as wages.

In East Godavari, the district water management agency (DWMA), which is the nodal authority for implementation of the job scheme, has started works in 13 mandals covering nearly 237 gram panchayats. The authorities have incurred expenditure of about Rs.156 crores, for execution of the works in the district so far in the current fiscal, and as many as 33,000 villagers reported for the works under the job scheme.

Special emphasis is being laid in Konaseema region where a majority of the farmers opted for crop holiday. Works are also underway in upland and Agency areas under the scheme.

The authorities maintain that works worth about Rs.645 crores have been sanctioned in the district.

The district stands in sixth position at the state-level with regard to execution of the number of works, expenditure incurred for their execution, and the number of workers provided with jobs under the NREGS.

In West Godavari, as many as 15 mandals covering 275 gram panchayats were declared as drought affected by the state government, and there are proposals to add a few more in the list.

The DWMA authorities maintain that works under job scheme were started in about 171 gram panchayats so far. The authorities have identified nearly 107 works for execution under the scheme. The authorities maintain that they are paying wages promptly, unlike the earlier practice of delayed payments, and except for teething problems in software, the implementation of job scheme is going on well.


The Deccan Chronicle, 11 December, 2011, http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/76850


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