Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched online ‘Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan’ in the country. The Central Government has selected three districts of Jharkhand including Hazaribag among the 116 districts of India.
The inauguration programme was organized in the town hall of the town. On this occasion DC Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh, DDC Vijaya Jhadhav, SDO Sadar Megha Bhardwaj and IAS trainees were presented.The DC said that Central Government has selected those districts of country where maximum number of migrant labourers have reached. On this basis Hazaribag got the opportunity to come under this scheme. He said that near about 64,000 migrant labourers reached Hazaribag from different places of India and aboard.
This scheme will provide employment of 125 days through the rural nature based 25 schemes. In first phase 25,000 migrant labourers will get job through this yojana. The Central Government has allotted 50,000 crores rupees for 116 districts of country.
Hazaribag will get near about Rs 500 crore for this yojana. This amount will be divided into 250 panchayats of Hazaribag. Every panchayat will get near about 2 crore for this yojana.The other districts which come under this yojana are Godda and Giridihi.