To increase the demand of seeking job in MGNREGA schemes from February 2, 2014 a special campaign named “Ask for Job” will start in the district.
A team of Government officials from blocks and panchayats will visit the villages to encourage the job card holders in taking benefit of this scheme. An application form will be recieved from them for minimum 14 days and maximum 100 days work demand.
It was informed by DC Sunil Kumar in a workshop on MGNREGA held in the auditorium of DC office on Wednesday. Addressing the block officials and other concerned officers DC Sunil Kumar said that the Government has decided to link Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan with MGNREGA so now toilets will also be built under this scheme. With this job campaign those who do not have job card yet will also get opportunity.
DC informed that on January 29-30, such workshops will be organised at block levels also. From next month in every panchayats Rojgar divas will be observed every month and on that day new entrants will fill the form for job card. Soon the administration will attach doctors with it, he added. DDC Ravindra Prasad Singh, Trainee IAS Harshika Singh, SDO Rajeev Ranjan, director DRDA Bindeshwar Tatma, member state advisory committee Ankita, all the block development officers and other concerned officials and staffs were present.