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Poverty as a Challenge — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social StudiesPoverty as a Challenge3 Marks
Question
Describe the term ‘NFWP’.
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Answer

  1. This scheme is known as the National Food for Work Programme, launched in 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country.
  2. The programme is open to all rural people who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work.
  3. It is implemented as a 100 percent centrally sponsored scheme and food grains are provided free of cost to the states.

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