New Delhi: Seeking to project the change
brought about by the government's flagship programme, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will
release two reports on NREGA at a function here on February 2.
While the PM will release 'Report to the people on
Mahatma Gandhi NREGA', the congress president will release
'Rozgar Sutra', a compilation of innovations, case studies and
field reports on NREGA.
In the flagship scheme, 100-days of wage employment is
guaranteed in each financial year to the rural households
whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Rural Development Minister C P Joshi will present a
report on convergence of various development schemes of the
government with NREGA.
Official sources said the occasion will be the
commemoration of the fourth year of the commencement of
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which has now been
renamed as Mahatma Gandhi NREGA.
State rural development ministers, members of the Central
Employment Guarantee Council, senior officials of the Ministry
of Rural Development, NREGA workers and district programme
coordinators among others have been invited to participate in
the programme 'Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Sammelan-2010'.
About 4.34 crore households have so far been provided job
under the programme during the current financial year. Of the
total workers, about 50 per cent were women.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 22:16