IITs, IIMs to assist government in rural employment scheme in India

by India Voice    August 19, 2008

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will help the government in implementing its flagship rural employment scheme.

The IITs may provide assistance for preparation of works manual and quality control guidelines for NREG. It will also provide technical inputs for improvement in NREG works, besides helping create a model for work convergence with other government programmes.

The IIMs may help in development of tools for programme evaluation and monitoring, training and capacity building of programme officers and district programme coordinators. It may also help in the development of techniques and tools for convergence of agri-business and concurrent evaluation studies on NREG scheme.

In April this year the NREG scheme was extended to all 630 districts in the country with 21.1 million households being provided employment till June 2008.

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