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The scheme will be simultaneously launched in all the mandals of 13 districts and will be backed by an awareness programme through grama sabhas.
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Hyderabad
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Jan.10
THE Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, will launch the AP Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (APREGP) next month aimed at providing a secure livelihood in rural areas.
The scheme provides for hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a year to each family under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. It would be referred to the Cabinet at its meeting slated for January 17.
The scheme will be simultaneously launched in all the mandals of 13 districts. It will be backed by an awareness programme through grama sabhas and applications for job cards would be invited from all the rural family members seeking employment under the programme.
Ministers, Members of Parliament, MLAs and other peoples' representatives will take part in the grama sabhas to create awareness. The scheme would be implemented fully from March 2006. The Central Government is expected to notify the NREG Act-2005 on February 2.
While the States have six months time to notify the scheme, Andhra Pradesh is ready to take it up early, a release from Chief Minister's office said.
In his presentation, the Principal Secretary, Rural Development, Mr K. Raju, said that the labour demand would be fully met in EGS (employment guarantee scheme) in the financial year 2006. Nearly 15 lakh rural families will benefit each year earning around Rs 8,000 per annum.
A team of officials made an in depth study of the implementation of the programme in Maharashtra before finalising the State scheme.
A Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to advise on the formulation of the APREG scheme submitted its recommendations today and the same was accepted.
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