Question : BENEFICIARIES UNDER NREGS



(a) whether the Government proposes the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) beneficiaries to work on private lands; and

(b) if so, the details thereof and the benefits likely to be accrued therefrom?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT(SHRI PRADEEP JAIN `ADITYA`)

(a) & (b): The provisions contained in para 1
(iv) of Schedule I of the Act as amended from time to time are as under:-

``(iv) provision of irrigation facility, horticulture plantation and land development facilities to land owned by households belonging to the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes or below poverty line families or to beneficiaries of land reforms or to the beneficiaries under the Indira Awaas Yojana of Government of India or that of the small farmers or marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debit Relief Scheme, 2008.``