Rahul Gandhi to visit Andhra Pradesh to mark 10th anniversery of NREGS

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will visit Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh next Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).

Gandhi would visit Bandla village, where the UPA government's flagship scheme was launched in 2006, Congress state unit president N Raghuveera Reddy said here on Tuesday. He alleged that the NDA government has not implemented the NREGS, now known as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, properly.