India Pushes Massive Rural Green Jobs Program. By Krittivas Mukherjee, Reuters, May 29, 2009. "The government has started a pilot project to quantify climate benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the anti-poverty scheme that could become one of the country's main weapons to fight criticism it is not doing enough to tackle global warming. The flagship anti-poverty plan, started three years ago, provides 100 days of employment every year to tens of millions of rural poor, a move that partly helped the Congress party-led coalition return to power in a general election this month. About 70% of the work under the NREGA are 'green jobs' such as water harvesting, forestation and land development."
2009-06-01
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