The job card holders under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) are being given jobs in Dehradun and other parts of the State. They are being paid for 15 days after they work under the scheme, said Dehradun district development officer Sushil Mohan Dobhal on Friday. Dobhal said that MNREGS is being executed effectively in the district. There is no shortage of funds with sufficient funds being released under labour, administrative and material heads by the state government from time to time. All the details about ongoing projects under the scheme and those of job card holders are being fed on the website by the administrative officials on time. labourers’ wages are being directly transferred in their accounts by the state administration officers, he said.
A total of 76, 552 households were issued job cards in the district since the scheme was enforced while just 15, 849 of them sought jobs under the scheme in the last financial year. In May this year, a total of 1255 job card holders sought jobs and all of them were given jobs under the scheme, Dobhal said.
According to him, under the scheme, works are being generated in water conservation and water harvesting, digging of new ponds, micro irrigation works, renovation of traditional water bodies, land development, plantation, land leveling, flood control and protection, drainage in water- logged areas, construction and repair of embankment, rural connectivity and rural sanitation. He said computer operators, programme officers and junior engineers are being employed on contractual basis under the scheme. Computer operator is being paid Rs10, 000 per month while Rs15, 000 and Rs20, 000 are being paid to junior engineer and programme officer respectively.