An amount of Rs 350 crore has been spent till date on the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes in Assam. Schemes under the NREGA have been implemented in all the 27 distircts of Assam.
Under the provision of the Act, 20 lakh families have been provided with job cards and of them, 9 lakh job cardholders have been provided employment, creating more than 2 crore mandays during 2008-09 till September 2008.
Assam received an amount of Rs 71.95 crore in 2008-09 as its first instalment of an allocation of Rs 143.90 crore from the Centre for implementation of the SGSY schemes. Assam has formed 166685 SHGs under SGSY and of them, 102626 are women SHGs.
Of these SHGs, 39225 have been provided with bank loans and subsidy. These SHGs include 21376 women SHGs.
In the rural road sector, under the Bharat Nirman project, the GOI has provided its share to Assam for construction of blacktopped and concrete roads in the villages having more than 1000 habitats in the plains and over 500 habitats in the hilly and tribal areas by 2009. An amount of Rs 6176 crore has been cleared for connectivity to 72 per cent of the total earmarked habitats in Assam. So far, Rs 1894 crore has been spent to construct roads of the length of 4616 kms, connecting 2903 habitations.
(The Assam Tribune, October 21, 2008)
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