Lamka, December 09: In less than a month after Churachandpur witnessed the actual implementation of NREGS, its achievement has surpassed the common expectations and impressively convinced the Central observer when he visited some of the work sites yesterday.

Visiting some of the work sites, the Central observer NK Singh/Sinha, Assistant Commissioner, NREGS, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India gave an impressive remark on the overwhelming response NREGS has received from its 30,000 odd Job Card holders in Churachandpur.

"I am very happy with the way people of Churachandpur have responded to the scheme in the last 15 to 20 days.

It is tremendous.

Certainly the programme is going to take off in this area," he said.

He also hailed the enthusiasm of the people and encouraged them to continue their noble efforts in making the programme a success.

"You have to plan and implement, we will only provide you funds.

Look at the developmental activities and employment you have given to the people.

Even the smiles on the faces of the people already tells a lot," the observer told village elders.

In some of the work sites, a novel and impressive scene of nannies attending to scores of children whose mothers were working on the sites greeted the visiting official.

At Saidan, a village on the outskirt of the township where more than 200 Job Card holders were engaged in widening their access road, the observer had an appealing photo-op as the villagers were actively engaged in crushing the rock-strewn foothills.

The job otherwise should have been meant for JCBs and Bulldozers.

Visibly impressed with the well planned make over Molnom village has witnessed under NREGS, Singh in his remark to the Deputy Commissioner Sumant Singh, even compared the villagers to the English in Europe.

The remark NK Sinha had made to the media on the need to implement such a scheme in a State like Manipur where there is enormous dearth of employment was compounded by the encounters he had while chatting with the villagers.

Atleast in three of the six sites he had visited, grimy women who were call for interaction speaks English and Hindi in a way more substantial than anyone could expect from a daily labourer.

The response a graduate woman who identified herself as Lhingboi at Haijang village gave to the observer that their husbands had to work somewhere else as they needs to meet their daily square meal tells aplenty.

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