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| NREGA scheme for Jammu district launched | | CM distributes job cards assuring 100 days' wage employment to beneficiaries | | Early Times Reporter
Khour (Jammu)|Sep 22
Launching the revolutionary National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme in Jammu district from this border area today, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad asked village headmen and rural development functionaries to fully acquaint people about it so that the targeted population is benefited as envisaged in the scheme.
The scheme provides for 100 days' assured wage employment in a year to rural labourers within the radius of 5 k from residence. The scheme was launched in 50 districts of the country including Doda, Kupwara and Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir in 2005. This year, it was extended to two more districts of the State, Jammu and Anantnag.
Addressing a largely attended public meeting where he distributed job cards among the eligible people to confer on them the right to secure 100 day's wage employment under NREGA, the Chief Minister said that 46000 job cards have been made for Jammu district which would be distributed among the beneficiaries of the scheme. He said the scheme provided for 100 day's wage employment to a job card holder within 15 days of obtaining the card and payment of the wages at home in case he or she did not get the wage employment.
The Chief Minister underscored the need for creating general awareness of the scheme among rural wage earners and called upon nambardars, chowkidars and rural development department officials to fully introduce them to the scheme and the procedure for taking its benefit. He asked the concerned officials to implement the scheme in the manner so as to achieve the desired results. He instructed them to identify and start within 15 days 20 to 25 works in each block of the district. He said the most important benefit of the scheme is that besides providing 100 day's wage employment to the needy it also creates public utility assets within the village itself. He said money is no consideration for works taken up under the scheme.
Azad reminded the officials responsible for implementing NREGA that he would like to see the scheme actually implemented on ground. He said not all politicians or government employees are dishonest but as the adage goes, a rotten sheep infects the whole flock. During the past 60 years, he said, several schemes have remained more or less restricted to papers only. However, he said now onwards this would no longer be countenanced. He said the concerned officials would have to provide complete details of works taken up under the scheme including the names and addresses of the wage earners employed. He described the labour force as an important segment of the society without which no country could develop.
Responding to the local development demands, the Chief Minister assured people that development of Jammu & Kashmir is his top agenda. He told them to leave development matters to him and work for strengthening amity, secularism and bonds of brotherhood among different communities. He said the under construction degree college and bridge at Akhnoor would be completed within three months. He said a special recruitment drive in state police would be undertaken for border area youths and a women police battalion raised in the State.
The Chief Minister said that on the issue of 1947, 1965 and 1971 refugees he had convened an all Parties meeting, adding that points on which there was consensus among parties would be implemented.
Speaker Legislative Assembly Tara Chand, Minister for Health and Medical Education Mangat Ram Sharma, Minister for Rural Development Jugal Kishore Sharma, MP Madan Lal Sharma and MLA Sham Lal Sharma also spoke on the occasion.
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