More than 25 lakh families benefited from the works carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the state in fiscal year 2013-14, claimed Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand.
Dhand said that the state had completed big and small over 2.41 lakh construction works during the last fiscal year. Dhand chaired a state-level meeting of the Empowered Committee under MGNREGA here and instructed officials to give special focus on projects such as WBM roads, anganwadi buildings and go-downs for food storage under the MGNREGA to boost the infrastructure in the State.
Besides this, he said efforts would also be made to construct stop-dam, reviving and deepening the old ponds and construction of the sewerage line under the employment guarantee Act. He also ordered them to promote greenery planting saplings as well among other things. Dhand added that the works under MGNERGRA would also be done to promote agriculture, fishing farming, gardening, and rural water supply among other things.