NREG provides wage employment to 15 million

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New Delhi, Dec 11: As many as 15 million people have been benefitted up to October this year from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a flagship programme of the UPA government, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said in a written answer that these people were offered employment for at least 100 days under the scheme which is already under implementation in 200 select districts across the country.

The scheme envisages at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household in the rural areas whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Mr Fernandes said there was no plan to introduce any scheme called "One family, one employment." In this context, he pointed out that a similar scheme was already under implementation in Haryana under the aegis of the state government.


UNI

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