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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Priority on digging wells bears fruit in Lohardaga-Uttam Mukherjee

Priority on digging wells bears fruit in Lohardaga-Uttam Mukherjee

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published Published on May 28, 2012   modified Modified on May 28, 2012

The district administration's plan of giving priorities to digging of wells under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has started bearing fruits. The scheme has brought smiles to hundreds of farmers across the district. Official records show that the farmers have doubled their income by growing crops in about 7,200 acres in all seasons.

Many farmers like Mahli Oraon at Rampur village of Sadar block shared their success stories with Paritosh Upadhyay, the special secretary of the rural development department who visited several villages to evaluate the execution of MGNREGA and utility of the programmes taken under it. Oraon said he used to grow only paddy in rainy season in his one acre and three dismal of farming land. This gave him an income of Rs 30,000-40,000 which was not enough to run his joint family. "All my family members do farming. In the absence of source of irrigation, we had to work as daily wage earners after the paddy season. But the MGNREGA wells that were completed this year have helped me earn over Rs 20,000 this season. I now grow tomato, onion, cucumber, gourd, chilly which will add some more money to my income," he said.

Oraon is not an isolated example. There are hundreds of farmers whose lives have been changed after the MGNREGA wells came up in the district. Last year, over 900 wells were completed despite many half-done wells being reported that collapsed in rain. This year, 2,712 wells were taken under the scheme of which 1,420 were reported to be completed till May 22. For completing the rest, the administration has geared up as monsoon as predicted this year to come early is near.

Deputy Commissioner Ratan Kumar said the digging schemes and its benefits had been commended several times by central MGNREGA officials. "Farmers at Umri village have expressed their joy after tasting the benefit of wells providing irrigation water to their fields which added to their income," he said.

The Times of India, 27 May, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-27/ranchi/31868260_1_mgnrega-wells-paddy


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