Explanation:

National Rural Employment Programme started in 1980.
The NREP was launched in October, 1980, and became a regular Plan programme from April, 1981. The NREP will be continued in the seventh Plan as an important component of the anti-poverty strategy.
NREP will have to be viewed as an integral part of the total package, which would imply that an effort would have to be made to direct and monitor the wage employment opportunities accruing through this Programme to members of the target group including those identified for assistance under the IRDP.