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holders. In addition to rice, the Government is providing red gram and palm oil at subsidised rates.
FEE REIMBURSEMENT Erasing the economical disparity between poor and rich in higher education system, the scheme was launched to provide 100 per cent fee reimbursement to students belonging to BC, SC, ST, minority and also Economically
Effectively implemented, the employment generated under the Act has the potential to transform the geography of poverty. Implementation of the Act calls for the formulation of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by the State Governments. Implementation of the Act calls for the formulation of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by the State Governments. The Scheme so formulated would have to provide for the minimum features specified in Schedule I of the Act. Accordingly, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has formulated the scheme called Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (APREGS) to provide not less than hundred days of guaranteed employment in a financial year to every household in rural areas covered under the Scheme and whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work subject to the conditions of the Scheme. Impact
Backward Class communities. About 33 lakh students benefited from the scheme.
APREGS The Government of India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 in September 2005. The Act gives legal guarantee of a hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to adult members of a rural household who demand employment and are willing to do unskilled manual work. The Act will be applicable to areas notified by the Central Government. The Objective of the Act is to enhance the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by generating wage employment through works that develop the infrastructure base of that area. The choice of works suggested addresses causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation, soil erosion.
The application accelerated EGS processes and for the first time one could monitor fulfilment of 100 days guarantee for every household. It ensured greater transparency as every rupee spent on EGS can be tracked along with work progress. It also facilitated access to information and simplified the cumbersome process of preparing estimates. This has saved several man-months on the part of field officials. It has prevented excess sanction of amounts and helped subsequent recoveries by making the standard schedule of rates available for each locality online. APREGS has provided an effective decision support system to avoid loopholes in implementation. It is expected to be integrated with other rural development schemes under VIDI (Village Integrated Development Information). The APREGS shall have the following objectives ♌ The Primary Objective of the scheme is to provide livelihood
security to the households in rural areas of the notified areas by providing not less than one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. ♌ Secondary objective is the creation of durable community,
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