National Food for Work Programme

- National Food for Work Programme was launched on November 14, 2004 in 150 most backward districts of the country identified by the Planning Commission in consultation with the Ministry of Rural Development and State Government.
- The objective of the programme was to provide additional resources apart from the resources available under Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) to 150 most backward districts of the country so that the generation of supplementary wage employment and providing of food security through creation of need based economic, social and community assets in these districts is further intensified.
- The scheme was 100% centrally sponsored. The programme has been subsumed in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act which has now come in force in all districts of the country.