Food for Work FFW Programme


 
 
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Food for Work FFW Programme

Food-For-Work (FFW) Programme: The main objective of the Food for Work Programme is generation of supplementary wage employment. It is open to all rural people who are in need of unskilled work wage employment.

National Food for Work Programme was launched on 14th November, 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country with the objective of intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment. The programme is open to all rural poor who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work. It is implemented as a 100% centrally sponsored scheme and the foodgrains are provided to the states free of cost. The Collector is the nodal officer at the district level and has the overall responsibility of planning, implementation. coordination, monitoring and supervision. The programme from 2005 has since been subsumed in NREGA.

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When was the Food for Work Programme launched?

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