explain the national rural employment gurantee act
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The NREP was launched in October, 1980, and became a regular Plan programme from April, 1981. The NREP will be continued in the seventh Plan as an important component of the anti-poverty strategy.
NREP will have to be viewed as an integral part of the total package, which would imply that an effort would have to be made to direct and monitor the wage employment opportunities accruing through this Programme to members of the target group including those identified for assistance under the IRDP.
The same principle would apply in the choice of projects which would, therefore, have to take account of labour intensity of projects, their capacity to provide reasonably long spells of employment during implementation, direction towards poor, long-term income and employment generation potential, capacity to create a base for productive asset endowment and capacity for filling gaps in vital infrastructure.