CMs' panel to suggest measures to integrate MGNREGA with farm work

A high-powered panel of chief ministers will find out ways through which the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) labour could be used for doing jobs that reduce cost of cultivation for farmers, enhancing production, and even fencing of farms to protect them from wild animals.

The committee will also suggest how the Act can be used to incentivise aggregation and market infrastructure, rehabilitate agricultural land after natural hazards and bring diversification in farming. 

The panel headed by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also decided to organise five regional workshops, in Patna, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Guwahati and New Delhi,