Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh are among the states, which have the maximum number of the 130 new districts added to the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said 17 districts from UP, 15 from Bihar and 13 from Madhya Pradesh have been added to the 200 backward districts where the scheme was being implemented.
In a statement, he said that seven districts from West Bengal, six each from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, four each from Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and Chhattisgarh and three each from Punjab and Meghalaya have been brought under the scheme. Two districts each from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Sikkim and Uttarakhand are included in the scheme.
The minister said that 50 districts from the list of backward region grant fund districts and 15 additional with incidence of farmers suicides have made it to the new list. NREGA guarantees local employment in the form of unskilled manual work up to 100 days in a financial year to every rural household if it demands such employment.
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