ANANTAPUR: District Collector Y.V. Anuradha has directed officials to provide unskilled wage employment work to all those who come forward seeking work under the Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (APREGS).

Inaugurating a two-day training programme to the field staff of APREGS here on Thursday, she asked officials' concerned to send the list of works to be taken up from April 1 so that administrative sanction could be given to the proposals at the earliest.

Community coordinators

The technical assistants, field assistants and panchayat secretaries being training here should conduct similar training programme at the mandal level to train the remaining field staff on the scheme, she said. She directed them to avail themselves of the services of community coordinators in opening the bank or post office savings accounts for the labourers enrolled under the scheme. She directed officials to conduct meetings by the mandal mahila samakhyas to explain the works to be taken up under the scheme to those enrolled their names.

A village information wall should be constructed in every village immediately after grounding the works, mentioning the details of works, their cost and labourers employed.

Mandal engineering officers could give sanctions to works estimated by technical assistants, with a cost of up to Rs. 2 lakhs.

For the works with a value from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 5 lakhs estimates should be prepared by MEOs and sanctions could be given by deputy executive engineers.

Ayahs would be arranged at the work sites if the labourers employed for the work have five or more children below six years of age. Those aged above six years should be sent to learning centres while their parents work.

Joint Collector Shashibhushan Kumar asked officials to maintain muster roll for every work as it was a key document.

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