New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday (July 9) disbursed a Rs 352 crore package for 32 lakh workers engaged underneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) within the state from April to June. The financial package was part of the Odisha authorities’s particular COVID-19 package of Rs 1,690 crore for the poor.Â
Each of the 32 lakh workers was given an additional quantity of Rs 50 per day as well as to their wages, underneath the MGNREGA. The state paid an extra quantity of up to Rs 4,500 for 3 months to the workers, ANI reported.Â
Addressing a digital convention of MGNREGA workers from 314 blocks of the state, Patnaik stated, “There is always a special place in my heart for the poor and working for their welfare gives me satisfaction, I hope this financial assistance will help the workers.”Â
The Odisha CM additionally directed the district administration to create extra persondays on the district stage and supply employment to the poor.
He added, “During the last one year, the poorest of the poor have lost their livelihoods due to the lockdown, therefore state government had announced a special COVID assistance of Rs 1690 crore for farmers, labourers, dairy farmers street venders and other poor people of the state taking into account their livelihood.”
The Odisha authorities had created 20 crore persondays final yr and had set a goal to enhance it to 25 crore by the top of the yr. In 2021, the Patnaik-led authorities has created 7 crore persondays to this point.Â
Further, the state authorities can be stressing on offering employment and help to the members of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, folks with disabilities, and self- assist teams.
MGNREGA is a wage employment programme that goals to enhance the livelihood of households in rural areas by offering a minimum of 100 days of assured work a yr to each family whose grownup members work.
(With company inputs)
