MGNREGA gives work to people below poverty line in J-K s Dhangri ANI | Updated: Apr 10, 2021 10:55 IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 10 (ANI): As the three-tier Panchayat system gave powers to panchayat members to provide work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), many people below the poverty line in Dhangri block of Rajouri has been provided jobs under MGNREGA.
The scheme has given new hopes for people living in far-flung hilly areas of Dhangri block with no road or water connectivity.
Ram Krishan, Sarpanch, Potha Panchayat said, I am very happy about the pace at which work is happening. MNREGA and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) are going on well. Many departments are working on this. We are at work to give water connectivity to the whole of this panchayat.
ABBOTTABAD/MANSEHRA: Eight persons suffocated in separate incidents on Tuesday night, the police said.
Five members a family, including three children, suffocated as they failed to turn off a gas heater before going to sleep in Phul Gulab area of Abbottabad.
The police named the victims Mohammad Javed, his wife Yasmin Bibi, and three daughters, Maryam, 12, Murwa, 10, and two-year-old Aqsa.
Other members of the family informed the Mirpur police when they failed to wake the victims up in the morning despite repeated knocks at the door to their room.
The police reached the spot and broke open the door. They recovered five bodies from the room and shifted them to the Ayub Teaching Hospital for autopsy.
MANSEHRA: A couple and their son died of suffocation due to the accumulation of gas in Potha area here in wee hours on Tuesday.It was learnt that the family went to sleep while the gas heater was.