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Food Security In India

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CBSEENSS9008265
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Describe National Food for Work Programme.

Solution

National Food for Work Programme:
(i)National Food for Work Programme was launched on November 14, 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country with the objective of intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment.
(ii)The programme is open to all rural poor who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work.
(iii)It is implemented as a 100 per cent centrally sponsored scheme and the foodgrains are provided to States free of cost.

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