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envisaged provision of additional wage employment in the rural areas as also food security
along side the creation of durable community, social and economic infrastructure in the rural
areas. Details about allocation of cash component and food grains for the State of Karnataka
during the year 2003-2004 were mentioned. A reference was also made that a new scheme
namely, National Food For Work Programme (NFFWP) has been launched in 150 most backward
districts in the country from November 2004 to generate additional supplementary wages
employment and to create productive assets in these districts. Under NFFWP, three districts of
Karnataka namely, Chitradurga, Devangere and Bidar have been included. It is further stated
that the Government has introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha on 21.12.2004 namely, National Rural
Employment Guarantee Bill, 2004 to provide at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment
work to every poor rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual
work. This will ensure more number of days employment opportunities to the rural poor.
4.162 The matter is still under consideration by the Commission.
28. Devastation caused by tsunami in coastal areas of South India – Case No. 1054/22
2004-2005-FC
4.163 Taking suo-motu cognizance of the calamity that arose from devastating tsunami waves
which hit large areas of coastal India, including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Pondicherry,
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala on 26.12.2004, the Full Commission, vide its
proceedings dated 13/01/2005, observed
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that it is essential that the Government machinery involved in rehabilitation is able to take
all necessary steps for an equitable distribution of both relief as well as rehabilitation
measures while maintaining transparency and ensure that the poor, destitute women,
destitute children and all persons, who would be in greater need of the relief and
rehabilitation measures, are not deprived or made to suffer and are well taken care of;
that in order to ensure smooth process of relief, the concerned State Governments/Union
Territories must at the earliest prepare and publicize a computerized list of persons, dead
or missing, because of tsunami disaster as also list of the totally/partially destroyed
properties, as such an authentic list would help in smooth settlement of insurance and
other claims of the victims and expedite the rehabilitation process and also help the families
to trace the missing persons;
that to ensure that young widows and children were not sexually or otherwise exploited
by unscrupulous elements, the State Governments/Union Territories should evolve a
mechanism towards that end and to prepare a computerized list of such widows and
children who were victims of tsunami disaster which would help the authorities to guard
against their exploitation.
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