Anantapur set to achieve record in providing jobs to NREGS workers

Anantapur: A whopping 7 lakh workers have been given work under NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) in the district on Monday beating its last week's national record of covering 6.20 lakh workers out of 46 lakh population in the district. The District Collector has now given a target to officials to provide jobs to 10 lakh workers under NREGS.

The District Collector Gandham Chandrudu has taken initiative to ensure the scheme be benefitted to majority of poor people in rural areas. On any given day more than 700,000 workers line up to execute the works proposed by DWAMA.

The ghost of corona is still haunting people and economic normalcy is yet to be restored.

NREGS job card holders in Garladinne mandal, Narpala, Bukkarayasamudram, Gooty and Pamidi mandals have described wage employment provided under NREGS as a boon at a time when daily wages rate has plunged to an all time low due to post corona lockdown challenge.

District Collector Gandham Chandrudu during his interaction with 'The Hans India' says that workers in rural areas are jubilant as the work prospects and payment of wages are higher than agriculture labour payment. He reiterated that creation of work for rural masses is his top priority and in any given situation, NREGS is the best bet, he adds.

Ramulamma, a job card holder in Marthadu village in Garladinne mandal told this reporter that she had been earning a daily wage of Rs.150 per day in the agriculture crop fields but when she reported for work under the NREGS, she is getting a daily wage of Rs.240 per day.

Collector Chandrudu assures a minimum 100 days of work to each job card holder.

Rangamma and her husband Papa Raju of Garladinne village says that she, her husband and two children together are earning more than Rs.800 a day working with the NREGS team.

DWAMA project director YVVN Prasad told 'The Hans India' that as many as 5,86,342 persons reported for work on 10th June; 6,18,288 persons on June 18; and around 6.20 lakh reported for work on June 19 and 20. Nearly 7 lakh have reported for work on Monday.