Chief ministers' panel likely to approve farm fencing for villages

The panel was constituted by the Centre to propose on the integration of the rural jobs scheme with the agricultural sector

A committee of chief ministers is expected to endorse the proposal to use funds from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for fencing of farmlands — on the condition that it is done for the village as a whole or a cluster of hamlets, not an individual's land.

The panel is chaired by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. It was constituted by the Centre to propose on the integration of the rural jobs scheme with the agricultural sector. Fencing of individual farmland is one of many works the panel was to mull on. Some others include