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‘Create awareness on NREGS’

KADAPA: The legal services authority should don the mantle of creating awareness among the people on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), District Judge K.G. Sankar said on Saturday.

Presiding over a legal awareness camp on NREGS 2005 for programme officers and assistant programme officers in the District Legal Services Authority on the district court premises, Mr. Sankar said the judiciary would create awareness on the scheme being implemented all over the country on the directions of Chief Justice of Supreme Court K.G. Balakrishnan although the judiciary has no role to play in the government welfare schemes.

Several crore of rupees were spent on NREGS in Kadapa district and the second social audit on the scheme was in progress, Project Director of District Water Management Agency B. Anil Kumar Reddy said. Payment of wages to workers was computerised. Officials should follow the new guidelines being issued by the government, he said.

Judge of Permanent Lok Adalat Chalapathi Rao said the government would pay compensation to NREGS workers in case of accidents and they could approach the Lok Adalat for a better claim.

District Legal Services Authority Secretary B. Syamsunder said the government provided the right to seek work under NREGS and DLSA would create awareness among the rural people in order to ensure proper implementation of the scheme.

Judicial officers, a district official, gram panchayat member and social workers should form a team to oversee the scheme and a calendar for conducting legal awareness camps must be prepared, he said.

Second Additional Judge Anupama, Additional Judge of Rayachoti Lakshmipathi, Zilla Parishad CEO A.S. Venkataswamy, advocates, programme officers and assistant programme officers of employment scheme participated.

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