Ganjam Dist Achieves One Crore Persondays under MGNREGA, Tops Country in Providing 100 Days Work to Rural Households

Berhampur: Scripting a milestone in employment generation, Odisha’s Ganjam district has achieved one crore Persondays under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during the ongoing financial year.

This has been informed by Zilla Parishad CDO-cum-EO Keerthi Vasan V on Monday.

Ganjam district has also emerged as the country’s best district in providing 100 days work to rural households under the employment generation scheme.

The milestone has been achieved as the district administration has effectively implemented the scheme to reboot the rural economy affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The focus of the administration has been on community-centric as well as individual projects in order to provide not only works to people in need but also to create beautiful durable assets to change the face of rural Ganjam.

The community projects such as rural parks, tourism circuits, tanks and canal renovation, check dams and rural connectivity etc. have been taken up under the MGNREGA. Similarly, individual projects such as cattle sheds, goat sheds, poultry shelters, Mo Upakari Bagicha, fodder cultivation etc, have been implemented in a massive scale on priority basis.

Besides, the Ganjam admin has also taken up innovative project like one cattle hostel in every block for the land less beneficiaries.