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Employment schemes stops workers' migration to urban areas in UP | Successful execution of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur
district has stopped the rural masses from migrating to urban areas. Earlier,
rural people were forced to migrate to cities in search of work, but now the NREGA
has enabled them to find work in their villages and remain with their families.
"After the implementation of the NREGA in our village, we don't have to go to
the cities in search of work. There are many types of work that we do here, which
include digging roads and working in brick factories and drains. This scheme has
helped us a lot; now we can manage our families and farmland while working here
in our village," said Murataza Hussain, a villager. He added that the NREGA's
provision of employment opportunities is also a welcomed safeguard against food
insecurity. The NREGA guarantees equal opportunity employment, enabling women
to work, as well. "The implementation of the NREGA has helped my fellow villagers.
Now they don't have to shift to the cities in search of work, they get employment
over here now. There are 360 employment cards that have been issued in this village
alone," said Indravati Devi, a village chief. The Central Government provides
gives each worker employed under the NREGA a daily wage of rupees 100. NREGA beneficiaries
have found employment in brick factories, construction of roadways and highways,
and in orchards and plantations. |
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