PM launches food-for-work programme

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched the national food-for-work programme in Ranga Reddy district, as part of the UPA government&#14...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched the national food-for-work programme in Ranga Reddy district, as part of the UPA government’s poverty alleviation measures.

The scheme will initially cover 150 most-backward districts of the country and provide additional supplementary wage employment through creation of need-based economic, social and community assets.

Under the scheme, five kilograms of foodgrains per man day will be given to labourers, with a minimum of 25 per cent wages in cash. The Centre would provide foodgrains and cash component to the states to generate additional wage employment.

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Works relating to water conservation, drought proofing and land improvement, flood control and rural connectivity of all-weather roads would be taken up to create wage employment.

Aloor, a sleepy backward village, was decked up for the national launch of the food-for-work programme. Eight most backward districts in the state — Adilabad, Mahaboobnagar, Ranga Reddy, Khammam, Warangal, Nalgonda, Anantapur and Cuddapah — will be covered under the national scheme.

Union Ministers Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and S. Jaipal Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Governor Sushilkumar Shinde, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, ministers and legislators were present on the occasion.

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