Social Sciences, asked by AyushSinghRajput09, 1 year ago

Give points of National food for work programme scheme

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Answered by tinapatinsome

The National Food for Work Programme was launched by minister of rural development,central government on November 14, 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. The programme is open for all Indian poors who are prepared to do manual unskilled labour work and are in the need of wage employment. It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme. Food grains are provided to the States free of cost.The transportation cost, handling charges, and taxes on food grains will, however, be the responsibility of the States.

AyushSinghRajput09: can u plse give me Antyodaya Yojna scheme also

tinapatinsome: Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a Government of India sponsored scheme to provide highly subsidised food to millions of the poorest families. This scheme was brain child of then union food and civil supplies minister, Shanta Kumar. It was launched by the [NDA] government on 25 December 2000 and first implemented in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

tinapatinsome: After identifying the "poorest of the poor" (the 10,000,000 poorest families in the Below Poverty Line category) through extensive surveying,[1] the government began providing them an opportunity to purchase up to 37 kilograms of rice and wheat at a highly subsidised cost of three rupees per kilogram of rice and two rupees per kilogram of wheat. Poor families were identified by their respective state rural development facilities through the use of surveys.

tinapatinsome: The scheme has been expanded twice, once in June 2003 and then in August 2004, adding an additional 5,000,000 BPL families each time and bringing the total number of families covered up to 20,000,000.[citation needed] after this additional 50 lakh families were added in 2003 .

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