Chief Executive Officer of Dharwad Zilla Panchayat Swaroopa T.K. has said that 90% of the works under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the drought-hit Dharwad district had been completed, thus helping the people of rural areas.
She was speaking to presspersons in Madanghavi of Dahrwad district during the media visit to the places where development works under MGNREGA have been taken up.
Ms. Swaroopa said that in all the taluks of the district, various works including dredging, construction of farm ponds and farm bunds had been taken up and the farmers were being encouraged to take up cultivation of alternative crops instead of traditional ones. Priority had also been given for extension of horticultural crops, she said.
