The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) had helped the rural families from migrating to bigger cities in search of livelihood, Deputy Secretary of Dharwad Zilla Panchayat Rekah Dollin has said.
She was speaking at a programme ‘Nava Bharata Naari’ to honour women working under MGNREGA from the last eight years at Umachagi village in Hubballi taluk on Monday. The programme was organised as part of International Womens’s Day. In all 94 job cardholders are working in various works taken up under MGNREGA in the village.
Ms. Rekha Dollin said that MGNREGA had helped several rural families find a source of livelihood in their own villages and also take part in development works of the village.
