Summary:
According to sources in the Rural Development Department, steps will be taken to ensure that all tribal families are given job cards. It was decided to provide wages to tribal families for taking up cultivation in their own land. The figures of actual achievements in the tribal areas would be revealed only when this process was over, they said. In the short term, the Rural Development Department will prepare an action plan for taking up various works in the next three months under the MGNREGS. In the long term, the department had issued directions to all field officers of the MGNREGS to take urgent steps to identify tribal families and issue them job cards..