NREGS boon for jobseekers in Nuapada Saturday, 06 June 2020 | AJIT PANDA | NUAPADA

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The fact that MGNREGS, at the moment, can provide job to thousands of job seekers in a district like Nuapada, is proved from the online data in THE MGNREGS website.

According to the web information on e-Muster Roll generation as on June 4, the number of workers engaged was above 47,000. "It is significant in the context of lockdown and joblessness," say the officials monitoring the scheme in the district. "We will continue to provide job, till the people are interested to work," says the Assistant Programme Officer (APO) of MGNREGS, Boden block.

A visit to work sites and interaction with the people working under MGNREGS speaks a lot of the achievements this year.

Bidyadhara Hans and his family members belonging to Dotto village under Karangamal Panchayat of Boden block have already completed 114 days of work since April. The family has earned Rs 33,972 till now, that comes to an average of approximately Rs 17,000 per month. Another family of this Panchayat which has completed 100 person days of work is the family of Kanakram Majhi, who has earned Rs 29,800 in last two months. One will find several such families in every village, who would be happy to narrate his changed experience this year.

"We have benefited in two ways, in addition to the wage, the work has also helped us develop our undulating up lands, "say Bidyadhar and his family members, who got support for land development work. Kanakram Majhi and family, who were engaged in construction of a farm pond in their land have also similar view to share. Most important is that the wage payment mechanism has improved significantly. "The payment of wage has been regularised, we are being paid our wage every eight to ten days; otherwise it would not be possible to work under this scheme," say the workers.

The district at present is implementing 3,622 projects in the district. "It is encouraging that about 44 per cent of the total workers working at present is women," says APO of Komna block Pradip Kumar Ojha, which has engaged the highest number of labourers at present with Muster Roll generated for 11,540 workers, followed by Sinapali with 10,613 workers and Nuapada, Boden and Khariar repectively with MR generated for 8,871, 8,545 and 7,837 workers.

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