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Lesson 40:National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

After the notification of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on September 7, 2005 a new scheme named “National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)” has been launched on February 2, 2006 by Dr. Manmohan Singh in a remote village Bandlapalli in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh. The on-going programmes Sampoorna Grammen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) and National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP) are being subsumed within the NREGS in the 200 districts identified in the initial stage. All the districts in the country will be covered under the scheme within five years.