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`Depute team to study scheme in Maharashtra'

Special Correspondent

GULBARGA: Former Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council and dissident Janata Dal (S) MLA B.R. Patil on Wednesday urged the Government to depute a team of legislators and officials to Maharashtra to study the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and adopt the finer points in the implementation of the scheme.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Patil said Maharashtra was a pioneer in implementing the scheme which was introduced when late Vasantrao Patil was the Chief Minister. It became a role model for the Union Government which adopted the scheme to be implemented in 200 backward districts in the country. He said the implementation of the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra had arrested the migration of rural labour. The priorities fixed by Maharashtra had helped in solving drinking water shortage in the rural areas. It had also increased the irrigation network and improved the groundwater situation.

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