MGNREGA will be strengthened to empower the rural poor-Birender Singh

The Union Minister for Rural Development Shri Birender Singh today said that there is a need to strengthen MGNREGA as the rural job scheme has led to empowerment of poor people in the villages. He was talking to media here after taking charge of the Ministry of Rural development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation. He said, valuable suggestions have come regarding reforming the rural job scheme and all necessary steps will be taken to strike a right balance between creation of jobs and building durable assets through MGNREGA. The Minister said, if the need arises some new works will also be added to the scheme. He, however, acknowledged that there were some problems in the implementation of the scheme and the government will try to rectify the same.