Wage employment programme starts in Ganjam
Berhampur: The Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) on Monday launched the urban wage employment programme, recently announced by chief minister Naveen Patnaik, to provide livelihood to the lockdown-hit and earning-deprived urban poor.
“On the first day of the launch, we engaged 20 people, members of two women’s self-help groups (SHGs), to undertake labour-intensive work on a pilot basis,” said BeMC commissioner Chakravarti Singh Rathore. The labourers undertook wall painting in front of Town police station and dug percolation pits in Old Berhampur high school here.
Being the first day of the programme, work was done from 9.30 am to 11.30 am. “We have explained the modalities of the project to the workers. From Tuesday, work will be carried out from 6.30 am to 11 am,” Rathore said.
The commissioner said registration of job-seekers under the programme would start from Wednesday at the respective ward offices. Ward-level committees, headed by nodal officers, would finalise the work to be undertaken in the particular ward. Workers engaged would strictly follow regulations like social distancing and mask-wearing at the project sites, said Rathore.
Naveen had announced Rs 100 crore for all urban local bodies under the initiative; of this, BeMC received Rs 5 crore. The programme will continue till September.
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