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3 crore households get jobs under NREGA March 12, 2008 16:52 IST Official figures tabled in Rajya Sabha showed that there is an increase in the number of beneficiaries of NREGA as compared to last fiscal during which employment was provided to 2.10 crore households spread acrosss 200 districts. Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said about 98.3 million people have migrated to cities from rural areas in the last ten years in search of job, for pursuing education and to do business. "There is thus clear evidence of a rural-urban divide which indicates the need for generating rural employment, enhancing rural prosperity and providing rural educational and health facilities to achieve balanced socio-economic growth," he said. He cited lack of infrastructure, like rural roads, electricity and drinking water is a major reason for the rural-urban divide. Singh said the Bharat Nirman programme and the NREGA are aimed at developing rural infrastructure and providing jobs to people in rural areas. NREGA has been implemented in 330 districts across the country and would be extended to the remaining districts from April.
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