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Railways start work under MGNREGA scheme
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Dec, 2018
The Railways, for the first time, have started utilising the
government's rural job flagship scheme - MGNREGA - to undertake railway
work, a senior official said on Thursday.
"The Northeast Frontier
Railways (NFR) has started works of widening railway embankment in
Kishanganj area of Katihar division in Bihar and Uttar Dinajpur district
of West Bengal under the MGNREGA," NFR's Chief Public Relations Officer
Pranav Jyoti Sharma told IANS. He said that if the state
governments of the northeastern states and concerned District
Magistrates agree, similar works can be undertaken in the region where
NFR has railway lines.
The NFR serves seven districts in West
Bengal and five districts in north Bihar, besides the northeastern
states, excluding Sikkim.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) mandates 100 days of employment in a
financial year to at least one member of each rural household in the
state.
Sharma said that in Kishanganj, the proposal of railway
line embankment repair was sanctioned for 5.7 km of track at an
approximate cost of Rs 13.4 lakh.
"Around 30 labourers are
turning up on a regular basis and all are being provided with job card
against MGNREGA. Similarly, the District Magistrate of Uttar Dinajpur
had also sanctioned supplementary estimate of embankment repair for 8.3
km of railway track at an approximate cost of Rs 21.5 lakh under the
rural job scheme," he said.
He said that the joint initiative of
NFR and the Bihar and West Bengal governments will be helpful in
providing rural jobs and also the repair and maintenance of railway
assets without any additional cost to the Railways.
The works
proposed under the MGNREGA include construction and maintenance of
approach roads for level crossings, developing and cleaning silted
waterways, trenches and drains along the tracks, construction and
maintenance of approach roads to railway stations, repairs to earthwork
to the existing railway embankments, cuttings, clearing vegetation
growth and plantations at extreme boundary of railway land.
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