Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan that was launched on Saturday.Baghel said Chhattisgarh’s inclusion in the scheme could help provide employment to migrant workers and farmers.The programme aims to provide jobs to workers in rural areas which have been worst affected by reverse migration and aims to broaden their social security net.The union government has prioritized states and districts with high number of returnee migrants under the scheme.
The scheme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, covers 116 districts in six states -- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Odisha.
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