CM's panel may favour using MGNREGA for farmland fencing but for a village

The panel is chaired by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

A high powered panel of chief ministers is expected to endorse the contentious issue of using MGNREGA for fencing farmlands, under the condition that it is done for the village as a whole or cluster of hamlets and not on individual lands.  The panel was constituted by the Centre for integration of MGNREGA with agriculture.

Fencing of individual farmlands through MGNREGA was one of many works that the panel is expected to recommend for taking up under the scheme to expand its ambit.

The others include desilting of irrigation channels, the creation of market yards and small marketing structure in