By : A Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jun 13: Wages to card holders under National Rural Employment Generation Scheme, NREGS will be distributed through banks, officials said today adding that the work of opening bank accounts for the job card holders would start soon.
In the meantime, the director of the NREGS, Nitin Chandra who is currently camping in Manipur inspected the implementation process of India’s flagship employment programme in Chandel district. He is scheduled to visit Tamenglong district also tomorrow where the scheme was first taken up in Manipur.
The move for payment of wages to the job card holders of NREGS in Manipur was apparently made considering the disturbance faced by the village authorities and government authorities in distributing the wages in cash directly to the beneficiaries.
It also aims to prevent the militants collecting money from the wages of the villagers by force in the hill areas of the state.
Mention may be made that in Churachandpur district on many instances, militants collected job cards from the villagers and took away the wages.
In a recent case on May 31 last, as many as 26 villagers who requested militants not to take a percentage from their wages for works done under the National Rural Employment Generation Scheme, NREGS in Churachandpur district were beaten badly by suspected cadres of the Kuki National Army, KNF(MC) leaving five of them with severe injuries.
The villagers of Kangathei village in Churachandpur district were summoned by the cadres of the outfit yesterday morning for holding talks in connection with the deduction of percentage from their wages at Tuibeyang village where the cadres of the outfit were taking shelter.
On other hand, there are also reports that works under NREGS in Chandel district are not being taken up properly. Villagers complained they were given wages for 50 days only even as the scheme promised to give them jobs for 100 days in a year.
In Manipur the implementation of the flagship programme first started in Tamenglong district which was included among the 200 districts selected for the scheme across the country for the NREGS first phase in 2005.
In the second phase, Churachandpur and Chandel districts came under the scheme followed by other districts. Now with the enforcement of NREGS Act across the state of Manipur, it has been extended to all the districts.
Job cards provided to each family will remain valid for five years and such schemes can be taken up to conserve water, protect forests, improve irrigation canals and drains and develop village roads.
The Manipur Information Centre at New Delhi has recently informed that out of 86,458 households, who demanded employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 64,458 households were provided employment during 2007-08.
Official sources at the ministry of rural development said that all 20,024 households, which demanded employment in Tamenglong and 44,434 households in Churachandpur district, were provided employment during the period.
Of the Rs. 2553.06 lakhs allotted under the programme for Manipur, Rs. 2078.48 lakhs was spent during the period, in which Tamenglong got Rs. 652.87 lakhs, Churachandpur Rs. 1765.68 and Chandel got Rs. 134.51 lakhs.
Total works under the programme were 1232 of which only two have been completed.
During the period, 15.34 lakhs man days were generated in the state, sources said.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=2500
IMPHAL, Jun 13: Wages to card holders under National Rural Employment Generation Scheme, NREGS will be distributed through banks, officials said today adding that the work of opening bank accounts for the job card holders would start soon.
In the meantime, the director of the NREGS, Nitin Chandra who is currently camping in Manipur inspected the implementation process of India’s flagship employment programme in Chandel district. He is scheduled to visit Tamenglong district also tomorrow where the scheme was first taken up in Manipur.
The move for payment of wages to the job card holders of NREGS in Manipur was apparently made considering the disturbance faced by the village authorities and government authorities in distributing the wages in cash directly to the beneficiaries.
It also aims to prevent the militants collecting money from the wages of the villagers by force in the hill areas of the state.
Mention may be made that in Churachandpur district on many instances, militants collected job cards from the villagers and took away the wages.
In a recent case on May 31 last, as many as 26 villagers who requested militants not to take a percentage from their wages for works done under the National Rural Employment Generation Scheme, NREGS in Churachandpur district were beaten badly by suspected cadres of the Kuki National Army, KNF(MC) leaving five of them with severe injuries.
The villagers of Kangathei village in Churachandpur district were summoned by the cadres of the outfit yesterday morning for holding talks in connection with the deduction of percentage from their wages at Tuibeyang village where the cadres of the outfit were taking shelter.
On other hand, there are also reports that works under NREGS in Chandel district are not being taken up properly. Villagers complained they were given wages for 50 days only even as the scheme promised to give them jobs for 100 days in a year.
In Manipur the implementation of the flagship programme first started in Tamenglong district which was included among the 200 districts selected for the scheme across the country for the NREGS first phase in 2005.
In the second phase, Churachandpur and Chandel districts came under the scheme followed by other districts. Now with the enforcement of NREGS Act across the state of Manipur, it has been extended to all the districts.
Job cards provided to each family will remain valid for five years and such schemes can be taken up to conserve water, protect forests, improve irrigation canals and drains and develop village roads.
The Manipur Information Centre at New Delhi has recently informed that out of 86,458 households, who demanded employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 64,458 households were provided employment during 2007-08.
Official sources at the ministry of rural development said that all 20,024 households, which demanded employment in Tamenglong and 44,434 households in Churachandpur district, were provided employment during the period.
Of the Rs. 2553.06 lakhs allotted under the programme for Manipur, Rs. 2078.48 lakhs was spent during the period, in which Tamenglong got Rs. 652.87 lakhs, Churachandpur Rs. 1765.68 and Chandel got Rs. 134.51 lakhs.
Total works under the programme were 1232 of which only two have been completed.
During the period, 15.34 lakhs man days were generated in the state, sources said.
Source: http://ifp.co.in/FullStory.asp?NewsID=2500
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