PM launches food for work programme

Prime Minister Manmohan singh on Sunday launched the National Food For Work Programme in Aloor village in Andhra Pradesh's Ranga Reddy district.

The programme will initially cover 150 most backward districts of the country and provide additional supplementary wage employment through creation of need-based economic, social and community assets.

Under the scheme, 5kg of food grains per man-day will be given to labourers with a minimum of 25 per cent wages in cash. The Centre will provide food grains and cash component to the states to generate additional wage employment.

Works relating to water conservation, drought-proofing and land improvement, flood control and rural connectivity of all-weather roads will be taken up to create wage employment.

Union ministers Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and S Jaipal Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Governor Sushilkumar Shinde, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, ministers and legislators were present on the occasion.