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Visakhapatnam
By Our Staff Reporter
VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC. 11. Thanks to the Food Assurance Programme (FAP), the rural poor of Kotauratla and Koyyuru mandals in the district, which have been identified as drought-hit, are having their hands full of work. Though the villagers are happy with the implementation of the programme, they are seeking enhancement of wages. They are also seeking extension of the programme to cover new projects in their villages and assure them of continued work. The FAP is being implemented through the District Water Management Agency (DWMA). The drought-hit villages have been identified through the Velugu survey and the beneficiaries selected by village development committees.
Beneficiary cards
Beneficiaries are given cards with details of his family. They would be given four months of compulsory work with a possibility of extending the work by another two months. At B.K. Palli village, work on the deepening of a tank was looking almost complete. "The work was started on Gandhi Jayanti Day. The tank was full of shrubs and trees before. We work from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day. The soil here is very hard and we find it difficult to dig much despite working throughout the day. We are paid Rs. 100 and given 40 kg of rice each," the villagers say.
Preventing migration
"The objective is to provide food security and prevent migration of poor villagers to other villages and towns in search of work," the DWMA Project Director, Sunil Raj Kumar, told a team of mediapersons who visited the mandal on Saturday
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