Thursday, February 2 2006 15:48 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bandlapally(AP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today (Feb 2 2006) launched the 'historic' National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme aimed at providing right to legal livelihood to the rural poor.

"We must tirelessly work to ensure that the benefit of the scheme reaches to the needy people," he said launching the programme in Bandlapally Gram Panchayat in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Terming the programme 'revolutionary', Singh said, "The main focus of the scheme was the poorest of the poor."