<p>Ahead of the 80th birthday of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, the Maha Vikas Aghadi gave a gift to the veteran politician and the coalition’s architect by integrating a rural development scheme.</p>.<p>At the weekly Cabinet meeting presided over by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the Trimurti-alliance cleared ‘Sharad Pawar Gram Samruddhi Yojana’.</p>.<p>Pawar, one of the senior most politicians of India, turns 80 on December 12.</p>.<p>The scheme would be carved from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Maharashtra State Employee Guarantee Scheme (MSEGS).</p>.<p>The Department of Employment Guarantee will be the nodal department for the implementation of the scheme and the large goal is to bridge the rural and urban divide.</p>.<p>Pawar has played a key role in forming the MVA government and keeping BJP out of power in Maharashtra, sending a strong political message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister and then BJP President Amit Shah.</p>
<p>Ahead of the 80th birthday of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, the Maha Vikas Aghadi gave a gift to the veteran politician and the coalition’s architect by integrating a rural development scheme.</p>.<p>At the weekly Cabinet meeting presided over by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the Trimurti-alliance cleared ‘Sharad Pawar Gram Samruddhi Yojana’.</p>.<p>Pawar, one of the senior most politicians of India, turns 80 on December 12.</p>.<p>The scheme would be carved from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and Maharashtra State Employee Guarantee Scheme (MSEGS).</p>.<p>The Department of Employment Guarantee will be the nodal department for the implementation of the scheme and the large goal is to bridge the rural and urban divide.</p>.<p>Pawar has played a key role in forming the MVA government and keeping BJP out of power in Maharashtra, sending a strong political message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister and then BJP President Amit Shah.</p>
