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An official spokesman said that under this scheme, a sum of Rs 50 lakh had been earmarked for each village to provide basic amenities to the villages with more than 50 per cent Scheduled Caste population. As many as 185 such villages are will be taken up with an outlay of Rs 92.95 crore during the year 2008-09.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which was started in districts of Mohindergarh and Sirsa, had now been extended to Ambala and Mewat districts. He said all the remaining districts would be covered under this scheme from the next financial year. He said that the objective of this scheme is to ensure employment at minimum wages to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work, for at least 100 days in a financial year. One-third of the employment opportunities are reserved for women under this scheme, he added.
The development works taken up by the gram panchayats and other implementing agencies under this scheme include water conservation, water harvesting, drought proofing, afforestation, tree plantation, canal irrigation, irrigation facilities on land owned by Scheduled Castes and other rural poor, renovation of traditional water bodies, land development, flood control and protection works and rural connectivity.
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