In India the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act promises 100-day guaranteed unskilled manual work to every rural adult with the aim to alleviate poverty.
Under this act, this financial year West Bengal topped all states with giving employment to 29, 714 disabled people, Chhattisgarh stood second with 13,763 and Madhya Pradesh third with 9,787 jobs to disabled people.
Compared earlier fiscal year, there has been increased participation of disabled people in the programme.
During the last financial year of 2008-09 a total of 1,46,855 were offered jobs under NREGA, as per the records of the government.
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