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100-dayjob creation for poor in Oct

Staff Correspondent
The government will launch a special 100-day employment generation programme involving Tk 2,000 crore in mid October as a guarantee scheme for poor unemployed people in rural areas.
‘The main focus of the programme will be on 44 districts like the Monga-prone and coastal ones," Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam said after finalising the programme at a meeting with Food and Disaster Management Adviser AMM Shawkat yesterday.
Under the programme 20 lakh people mostly from the 44 districts will be employed in various jobs for rural infrastructure development, maintenance and repair work and receive Tk 100 a day.
The programme will be implemented in two phases of the lean period--from mld-October to midJanuary and from mid-March to mid-May.
People receiving benefits from other safety-net programmes like vulnerable group feeding (VGF), vulnerable group development, gratuitous relief and test relief will not be eligible for the programme.
"It will be ensured that one does not get benefits from different sources," Mirza Aziz said.
According to the policy, the government will invite applications from the unemployed rural poor.
Upazila level committees comprising upazila nirbahi officer (UNO), union parishad representatives and government officials will decide who will get the jobs.
"Jobs for 20 days a month will be created for each poor person, thus providing the poor with 100 days'job over fiVe months," f ood Secretary Molla Waheduzzaman told Hie Daily Star.
If the government fails to ensure jobs to an applicant within 15 days of receiving application, it will pay them unemployment allowance--one thirdofthedafly wage for the first 30 days and half of it for the remaining days, said sources.
Those who will not appear for the job they are registered for will not get the unemployment allowance.
Fourteen lakh people will be picked from the 44 districts while six lakh people will be picked from upazilas, unions or villages in the rest 20 districts, the finance adviser said.
A steering conunittee led by the food and disaster management secretary will monitor the programme, the allocation for which was announced in the budget for fiscal year 2008-09.
According to government sources, Tk 1,246 crore retrieved through the anti-corruption drive would be spent on the project.