Employment Assurance Scheme(EAS)
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Explanation:
The Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) was introduced w.e.f. 2nd October, 1993 in the rural areas of 1778 blocks of 261 districts in which the Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS) was in operation.
The blocks selected were in the drought prone areas, desert areas, tribal areas and hill areas. During 1994-95 EAS was extended to 409 blocks under DPAP/DDP and Modified Area Development Approach (MADA) blocks having larger concentration of tribal.
In March, 1995 the scheme was further extended to 256 blocks out of which 233 blocks were flood prone in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam and 23 blocks were of Jammu & Kashmir in view of the special conditions prevailing there.
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