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Light at the end of tunnel for labourers

Employment opportunity for 100 days in a year beckons them

To give employment opportunity for 100 days in a year to landless labourers in the district, the district administration has plans to implement National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme from April 1, according to Collector S.J. Chiru.

The district is looking forward to the implementation of this scheme which will impact the rural areas and the district in big way, he added.

Before introduction of the scheme among people, the officials planned to organise an event to plan various activities for implementation of NREGS at field level. They planned for a live demo also.

A pond on the outskirts of Thappukkundu village panchayat in Theni block was chosen for this event on March 26.

Led by the Collector, DRDA project officer, all block development officers, engineers and overseers participated.

All 18 village panchayat presidents, panchayat assistants and people welfare workers of Theni panchayat union too congregated at the venue well in advance to witness the live demo.

A group of ten workers was asked to dig a two metre wide and three metre long area to verify output for one man day.

Also other steps to be followed before commencement of the work like verification of job cards, getting signatures of the workers in the muster roll and entries to be made in the job card register were demonstrated by the Thappukkundu village panchayat president, panchayat assistant and people welfare workers of the respective village.

On the completion of the above exercise, DRDA Project Officer Veeranan said the discussions were held in presence of the Collector.

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