Describe the term ‘NFWP’.
Answer:
- This scheme is known as the National Food for Work Programme, launched in 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country.
- The programme is open to all rural people who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work.
- It is implemented as a 100 per cent centrally sponsored scheme and food grains are provided free of cost to the states.