In addition, it may be useful to impose a work requirement before food aidis provided. This is done in the well-known Bangladesh Food for Work Program and in the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme in India. More recently, the government of India has introduced a nationwide scheme to guarantee 100 days of employment to at least one family member each year; early reports suggest that the program has provided substantial benefits. In programs such as these, the poor are put to work building infrastructure, such as roads from outlying areas (where the poor live) to market towns, that will ultimately benefit the poor and others in the region.