Overview
- Households in designated rural areas will receive up to 50 additional workdays above the 100-day baseline under the scheme.
- The move follows a recommendation from the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare for flood, cloudburst, and landslide-hit zones.
- Officials cited expected higher demand for public-works employment due to recent natural calamities as the rationale.
- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha welcomed the approval and said it will stabilize incomes, ease distress, and support durable asset creation.
- Authorities reported that 1,962 panchayats in the Union Territory were formally declared flood-affected, prompting the special relief measure.