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Himachal to launch NREGS in districts

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Government has made all the preparations to launch the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) from April 1in all the 12 districts of the State.

The scheme is already in force in four districts of the State. The Centre has already approved the proposal to start the scheme in the remaining eight districts.

Srikant Baldi, Principal Secretary of Rural Development Department, the nodal agency to implement the scheme, said on Sunday that all the spade work to enforce the scheme had been done.

Job cards for the unemployed had been prepared. The panchayats had also been asked to identify the work under the scheme, he said.

Mr. Baldi said the Centre had given Rs.5 crore rupees to the State which had been placed at the disposal of district rural development agencies for spade work.

Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal would formally launch the scheme from a panchayat in Masobra block of Shimla district on April 1. The State is expected to get Rs. 250 crore in a year and about two lakh unemployed youth are likely to benefit from the launch of this scheme. -- PTI

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