The Hindu Business Line : AP to extend rural employment programme

The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to extend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) to all the mandals across the State from April 1 next year.

This employment programme is currently being implemented in 656 mandals of 13 districts providing job cards to 81 lakh families. Of these, 64.8 lakh people of 42 lakh families have been benefited.

In all, works with an estimated outlay of Rs 1,646 crore has been taken up generating 17.84 crore man-days in these 13 districts.

‘Success stories’

According to a statement from the Chief Minister’s Office, the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who reviewed the progress of welfare schemes on Sunday, said the Government would shortly depute a delegation to the Centre to make a presentation on the State’s “success stories”, including the supply of free power to the Planning Commission.

While the number of service connections registered significant increase, the State Government was able to continue free power supply to the agriculture sector. While the number of connections increased from 23.74 lakh in 2004-05 to 25.27 lakh in 2006-07, the overall power consumption went up from 13,394 million units to 15,640 million units.

Given the current scenario, according to the statement, this is expected to increase by 14 per cent by the end of the current financial year. The Government will provide 1.5 lakh new connections every year to ensure that all the farmers are benefited by the free power scheme. As a part of the Government plan to increase access, the State officials concerned have been asked to prepare a presentation showcasing the State’s achievements in this regard.

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