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10O-day job scheme starts for 20 lakh poor

Star Business Report
The government yesterday launched a 100-day employment generation scheme for 20 lakh hardcore poor across the country to mitigate their sufferings during lean season.
Under the programme, one person of a family will get Tk 100 per working day against his/her labour to be utilised in different types of projects like canal digging, embankment building, earth filling, pond cleaning and compost making.
.The total number of people brought under the programme worth Tk 2,000 crore is about 5 percent of the total number of extreme poor at over 4 crore.
But according to government estimates, the number of total beneficiaries will be 1 crore as the programme will offer job opportunity to one person from each five-member family.
“We have taken the programme to mitigate sufferings of the hardcore poor. I hope it will help reduce seasonal unemployment in rural
areas,” said Food and Disaster Management Adviser AMM Shawkat Ali at a press briefing at the PID (Press Information Department) yesterday.
The government took the initiative to address seasonal unemployment in rural areas where the extreme poor, mainly farm labourers, face joblessness in September-November period after plantation of the country's second biggest Aman crop.
They also suffer from unem-ployment in March-April period after the plantation of the biggest crop Boro.
The government in the current fiscal undertook the scheme to create employment amid concerns over the livelihood of extreme poor who suffer from river erosion and monga, a famine-like situation.
“We will implement the programme in two phases. The first phase will continue until November," the adviser said, adding that the scheme has been taken along with other social safety net programmes such as VGD (vulnerable group development), VGF (vulnera-
ble group feeding) and Kabikha (food for work).
The second phase of the programme will kick off in March next year, Ali said.
“We are trying to increase purchasing capacity of these extreme poor through the programme," he said, adding that the programme started in 480 upazilas of all the divisions yesterday.
Of the divisions, Rajshahi and Barisal have got priority
Ali said if any appropriate jobs cannot be created within 15 days, the people brought under the scheme will be provided with Tk 40 daily for the first 30 days and Tk 50 daily for the rest of the period.
The adviser said those who have already been covered by the government's other social safety net programmes will not be eligible for the 100-day scheme.
Ali said the local administration will run the programme under different projects, and local non government organisations will be involved in it to monitor the works and money distribution.