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In a first, Indian Railways start work under MGNREGA scheme

The Indian 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.  

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In a first, Indian Railways start work under MGNREGA scheme
The Indian Railways, for the first time, have started utilising the government`s rural job flagship scheme - MGNREGA - to undertake railway work. Image source: Reuters
Written By: IANS
Updated: Fri, Dec 14, 2018
06:46 am
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The Indian 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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