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Awards planned for promoting job scheme

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NEW DELHI: The Union Rural Development Ministry is planning to institute awards for non-governmental organisations and civil society groups which play a role in creating awareness of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

The awards will be given at the panchayat, district and State levels to promote people’s participation in the scheme, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said.

The incentives would be Rs. 1,000, Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 25,000 respectively.

“We are working out the details of the scheme,” he said.

The move was prompted by the “highly positive” role played by NGOs and civil society groups in informing people of the scheme and highlighting any discrepancy detected in its implementation.

Fraud exposed

Recently an NGO in Orissa brought to light ‘frauds’ in the implementation in several districts, while another NGO in Madhya Pradesh helped people in Badwani district get unemployment allowance because the State failed to provide them jobs within the stipulated time.

Civil society groups are involved in social audit of the scheme.

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