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National
Food for work Programme
Government
of India has decided to impliment the National food for work
programme initially in 11 most backwork districts of Maharashtra
state . Hingoli district is one of that 11.
There are 5 Taluks in Hingoli district namely 1) Hingoli,
2) Kalamnuri, 3) Sengaon, 4)Basmath , 5) Aundh Nagnath. No. of
villages in Hingoli district is 711, Total No of Gram Panchayat is
565.
Total Population of
Hingoli district is 8,09,278.
Hingoli district is on 500 to 600 mts height from sea
level. Painganga, Purna and Kayadu are the main rivers in Hingoli
district. The Geographic area of this district is 4,63,364 Hectors
out of which 4,21,300 Hector area is under Cultivation. Average
Kharip area is 306900 Hector and average Rabbi area is 117400
Hector. The forest area in this district is 27095 Hector. and
average rainfall of this district is 893 m.m.
There are two major Irrigation project 1) Purna irrigation
project and 2) Upper painganga project in this district and due to
this projects command area is 34483 hector. and due to minor
irrigation projects the command area is 10164 hector and total
command area is 44647 hector.
397 villages has been selected under water shade
development scheme and No. of waters shades are 559. Out of these
559 water shades 479 water shades are selected for work.
OBJECTIVE
OF THE SCHEME
To provide the additional resources apart from resources
available under the Sampurna gramin rojgar yojna (S.G.R.Y.)
Employment Guarantee scheme ( E.G.S.) R.S.V.Y. etc.
so that generation of supplementary wage employment and
providing of food security through creation of need based economic
social and community assets is possible.
PRELIMINARY
PLAN FOR NATIONAL FOOD FOR WORK PROGRAMME
According to the guidelines issued by the Central
Government, the following activities are included in the
preliminary plan.
1)
Water conservation, 2)Draught proofing including a forestation,
3)Land development, 4)Flood control/protection measures including
drainage in water logged areas and 5) rural connectivity with fair
weather roads.
Talukawise works has been proposed in this plan. The total
cost of preliminary plan is 131.16 Crores and through which 279
lakhs mandys may be created. In this programme Rs. 1267.81 lakhs
are sanctioned for this district out of which installment
of Rs. 200 lakhs fund and allotment of
10275 M.T. Wheat and 2183 M T Rice is sanctioned
to Hingoli district.
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