The labourers are set to be paid a higher wage at the rate of Rs146 per day under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREGA) scheme effective from April 1, 2013 said Dhamtari District Panchayat Chief Executive Officer (CEO) RK Tandon.
Earlier, the labourers were being paid Rs132 per day under the scheme, he informed at a review meeting for MNREGA chaired by District Collector N Mandavi at the District Collectorate here on Wednesday.
The Collector directed the agencies to complete all construction work within the timeframe set for them.
He directed that all work still not started for the current financial year be commenced without delay and the same be completed before the onset of monsoons, i.e by June 15 this year.
Mandavi also asked the officers to work towards raising the number of workers for the construction works so that the physical and financial target set by the Chhattisgarh Government could be met within time.
There are 10,35,756
registered families in Dhamtari district out of which an estimated 10,18,430 are working
as labourers.
The district Collector stressed on the need of taking work on a 60:40 ratio at the panchayat level for building maximum asset level in the
village areas.
The meeting on Wednesday was attended by Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) KK Bisen, Executive Engineer, Water Resources department DK Srivastava and Ajay Srivastava, Executive Engineer of Rural Engineering Services, Jl Dhruv, Executive Engineer of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana GM Ansari , PO, Zila Panchayat (MNREGA) Dharamsingh and Block-level Janpad CEOs.