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Registers 99% success rate on national basis in 2006-07

Ambarish Mukherjee

New Delhi, July 19 The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) programme, designed to provide jobs on demand to one member per family in rural India, has been able to provide the requisite number of jobs in eight States during the financial year 2006-07.

The programme has been launched in 27 States. On a national basis too the programme had a success rate of more than 99 per cent, according to the official figures provided by the Ministry of Rural development.

During 2006-07, a total of 2,11,88,894 households, spread across 200 districts in the 27 States, had demanded employment, of which the Government has been able to provide jobs to 2,10,16,099 households, thereby leaving a gap of 1,72,795 who could not be provided unskilled manual employment within the stipulated period of 15 days which works out to 0.82 per cent.

Uttar Pradesh has had the least success, where the number of households that demanded employment was 26,76,261, while the number provided was 25,73,245, leaving a gap of 1,03,016.

According to officials in the Ministry of Rural Development, the nodal Ministry in charge of the NREG scheme, steps have already been initiated to rectify the situation during the current financial year and as of now ground level conditions have improved significantly. However, figures for the first quarter of fiscal 2007-08 are yet to be compiled, officials said.

Other States where implementation has come under review on the last fiscal’s performance are Bihar with a backlog of 19,711 jobs in 2006-07 and Orissa with a backlog of 13,082 jobs.

The States which have been able to provide the total number of jobs demanded are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur in the North-East region, Jammu and Kashmir in the North and Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Jharkhand.According to Ministry officials, around 80 per cent of the work undertaken by the district authorities under this scheme is in the area of conservation and storage of water, social forestry and other construction activities.

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