Months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the United Progressive Alliance government has announced a series of measures under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday announced steps that would not only expand the work done under NREGA but result in a lot of tangible financial benefits to job-card-holders of the scheme.
The scheme would now include works that would lead to creation of concrete and durable assets and these include houses for BPL families built under Indira Awas Yojana or State housing schemes, offices for self-help group federations, brick kilns, besides storage facilities in villages for grains and food crops.
