New Delhi: He's been part of the Congress working committee for just a few days but Rahul Gandhi has already made an impact.
He approached Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and got the PM to extend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) project to all districts in the country.
On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi and other AICC General Secretaries had called on the Prime Minister and had sought the implementation of the scheme, under which rural households are provided unskilled work for at least 100 days a year on minimum wages, throughout the country.
Chidambaram, in his 2007-08 Budget, had announced that the scheme would be expanded from 200 districts to 330 districts. There are 612 districts in the country.
The Government has proposed to make an initial allocation of Rs 12,000 crore for the NREGS. The scheme was launched on February 2, 2006.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is a demand-driven scheme carrying a legal guarantee of employment and that the budget allocation for it would have to be supplemented according to need.
Says Minister for Rural Development, Raghuvansh Prasad, "NREGA is a famous law of the Congress and Rahul Gandhi is pushing for rural development."
(With inputs from agencies)
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