Ganjam Creates History in MGNREGS Implementation, Becomes Number One District in Country in Job Creation

Chatrapur: Ganjam district has once again shown a stellar performance in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), by becoming the number one district in the country in job creation under the demand-driven scheme that ensures livelihoods in the rural areas.

As per the official data, Ganjam district has provided 100 days wage employment to more than one lakh beneficiaries under the scheme in the 2021-22 financial year.

It is for the first time in the history of Odisha that more than one lakh households were ensured 100 days employment in a year.

With this, Ganjam has become the number one district in the country in successful implementation of the flagship programme to support livelihoods of the rural people.

As the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected various sectors of the economy, the Ganjam administration has focused on employment generating schemes to support livelihoods of the people in the rural areas, thereby creating valuable assets like buildings, roads and ponds etc, said Ganjam Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange.

The district administration has taken up numerous projects, such as project deshi (poultry), mushroom farming, cattle sheds, dug well, fodder cultivation, rural connectivity, culvert, renovation of tanks, playgrounds, cremation grounds, AWC buildings, rural parks, and rural libraries among others.

Shinde Dattatraya Bhausaheb, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency, Ganjam, said, “We planned to bring maximum number of familes under MGNREGA fold by giving employment along with assets for livelihood development”.

The district not only focused on taking up large number of projects to provide employment, it also flexed its muscles to complete the projects so that durable and sustainable projects can be created.

Besides, the district administration has also stressed to improve the livelihood support of the vulnerable through MGNREGS. It took up and completed individual beneficiary projects like Cattle sheds, Dug well, Fodder cultivation, Mo-upakari bagicha, Poultry shed, Land Development, Vermi/Nadep compost pits, Recharge pits, Soak pits, Multipurpose farm ponds and Field bounding which would result in additional income to the people.