
The National Rural Guarantee Employment Act ( NREGA) has been the Congress Party’s active political mandate to which many attribute its winning the 2009 elections. While the media has written enough and more about this unque scheme by which the Indian Government aims to provide employment in the rural sector, this post is about how the government has taken the ambitious step of connecting this national campaign with the youth of the country using Facebook. While it is still very early days, this Facebook page shows a lot of activity and freshness of content.
This is definitely a very heartening step for social media enthusiasts like me. While the page not only successfuly integrates all media stories on NREGA by providing hyperlinks of the articles on the Status Updates/ Wall it is even gaining some fair amount of responses by people specially if we consider that in India even last year , Facebook was a non-entity.
True 483 fans does not seem a very large number in a country of 1.16 billion. But it’s a very heartening effort and in the right direction. And even if in a very very miniscule way, it has been able to generate conversations among people.
So let us now see what are the salient points of the NREGA Scheme:
1. Every household has the right to demand 100 days employment (unskilled manual work) from the Govt
2. Employment (with Job Card) will be given within 15 days of application for work. Job Card (with photograph) should be with you. No one has the right to take it away. In case of lose you can apply for a new one.
3. If employment is not given within 15 days, daily unemployment allowance in cash will be paid by the State Govt.
More on: http://viewmynewz.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/nrega-goes-facebooking/
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