Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, February 18-
With the efforts of Punjab's cabinet minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond, 65,607 new MGNREGA job cards have been created across Punjab in the last one and a half months. During the first review meeting of the department in January, Sond had ordered all the district officials to organize as many camps as possible in the villages and create cards under MGNREGA for the needy people immediately.
After these orders of Panchayat Minister, 65,607 new job cards have been created by setting up 10,533 camps in villages across Punjab. It also includes 2180 job cards for disabled people. At present, a total of 12,27,603 job cards are active in Punjab under MGNREGA.
Sond said that to provide maximum employment in the villages, instructions were given to organize special camps in the villages for creating job cards of MGNREGA.
Divulging the details, the Sond said that 434 camps were organized in Fazilka in which 8497 job cards were created. Similarly, 8309 in 443 camps in Gurdaspur, 6984 in 1022 camps in Patiala, 4850 in 855 camps in Amritsar, 4551 in 640 camps in Hoshiarpur, 4013 in 874 camps in Jalandhar, 3642 in 833.