A special National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) cell has been set up in Punjab with an aim to effectively implement it. An outlay of `233 crore has been provided under this project, said an official spokesperson on Thursday.
He said that the Centre has decided to fix the wage rate under the NREGA on the basis of Consumer Price Index which will be implemented on April 1 every year and will be applicable for the whole financial year.
From the outlay of `247.50 crore, an expenditure of `210.54 crore was incurred during the last financial year, he said.
All the districts of the State are being covered under NREGA with effect from April 1, 2008, and the recent wage rate has been revised from `202 to `210 with effect from April 1, 2015, he added.