India, Aug. 19 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand driven wage employment Scheme, with an objective to provide not less than one hundred days of employment in every financial year to every household in rural area whose adult members volunteer do unskilled manual work, resulting in creation of productive assets of prescribed quality and durability.
As per Schedule I of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, Para 4 (1), IV: Category : D: Rural Infrastructure: (ii) Providing all-weather rural road connectivity to [unconnected villages and border areas] and to connect identified rural production centres to the existing pucca road network; and...