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Jawahar Rozgar Yojna (JRY) was introduced as a massive wage employment programme on 1 April, 1989 by merging its predecessor programmes, namely, the National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) and the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP). The main objective of JRY was the “generation of additional gainful employment for unemployed and underemployed persons, both men and women, in the rural areas through the creation of rural economic infrastructure, community and social assets with the aim of improving the quality of life of the rural poor.” It was termed as one of the largest public works programmes in the world. However, wage employment programmes are not a new idea.