NREGP to be extended to 130 more districts

New Delhi, Mar 7 (UNI) The Centre today announced that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), a flagship programme of the ruling UPA, will be extended to 130 more districts, including 15 with incidents of farmers' suicide, during the current year.

Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Sing told the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour that the largest number of 17 districts would be from Uttar Pradesh.

He did not, however, name the beneficiary districts in Uttar Pradesh in the context of the forthcoming assembly elections in the state.

The Scheme, which seeks to provide guaranteed employment to one member of each rural household for 100 days a year, has already been implemented in 200 districts, covering 16.6 million households and generating 640 million mandays of employment on 600,000 works.

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