Sangareddy: Medak district has set a target of providing work to a minimum of 80 per cent of the 3.61-lakh job seekers under the Andhra Pradesh Rural employment guarantee scheme this year.

The District so far opened more than one lakh accounts to pay the wages to the labourers and commencement letters were issued to 700 works worth Rs. 9 crores. Medak division topped the list with 1.6 lakh labourers followed by Siddipet with 1.1 lakhs and Sangareddy with 92 lakhs.

The industrially developed Ramanchandrapuram mandal recorded the lowest with only 142 labourers seeking work under the programme.

According to Additional district programme coordinator P. Adi Reddy, District Water Management Agency, the nodal agency for the Employment guarantee programme has been providing work to the job seekers under the micro irrigation project, watersheds and the comprehensive land development programmes.

He said that the district stood first in the State for its accounts management methods and speedy commencement of works. The banks and financial institutions where the accounts for the labourers were opened would be paid a service charge of 2 per cent, he said.

Adi Reddy said that the initial trouble with the workers assigned to dig the rocky soil in certain areas of the district like, Kangti and Naryankhed had been sorted with the new SR rates that allowed them to earn as much as Rs. 195 per day. He said that strict monitoring and payment of wages through banks has cut down the role of the middlemen completely.

The concerned MPDOs, line departments, RWS, DWMA, District resource persons and 1200 field assistants have been entrusted with the monitoring of the programme.

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