Discuss National Food For Work Programme for removal of poverty.

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                 The Planning Commission has identified 150 most backward districts of the country on the basis of prevalence of poverty indicated by SC/ST population, agricultural productivity per worker and agricultural wage rate. Most of them happen to be tribal districts. There is a need for substantial additional investment in these districts to convert their surplus labour into required capital formation solving livelihood issues.
·       The new Food for Work programme is such an attempt. Substantial resources in the form of cash and food grains are being provided under the programme to generate additional supplementary wage employment and to create productive assets in these 150 identified districts. Through the programme, an attempt will be made to coordinate among different on going schemes which have wage employment potential, so that the focused approach provides a solid base for the districts to take off on their own. The success of the programme will depend on the vision with which it is implemented.
·       The new Food for Work Programme is also a move towards wage employment guarantee. It is an experiment, which if successfully carried out, will give the government the necessary confidence to take responsibility for providing wage employment guarantee, initially in these 150 identified districts and later, gradually in the remaining districts of the country.    
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