Poverty As A Challenge

Question

Describe ‘National Food for Work Programme (NFWP)’.

Answer

National Food for Work Programme was launched in 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country.
The programme is open to all rural poor who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work. It is implemented as a 100 per cent centrally sponsored scheme and food grains are provided free of cost to the states.

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