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- 1. By Rajnikant George Rasmi Kala Tirkey
- 2. Wage Employment Programs Historical Perspective
- 3. NREGA objective
- The objective of the Act is to enhance livelihood security in
rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage
employment in a financial year to every household whose adult
members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
- 4. NREGA - Overview Salient Features
- Employment to all those who are willing to work (100 days)
- Unlimited supply of funds for this project
- Free registration with a job guarantee within 15 days of
application
- At least 1/3 rd of the employees must be women
- Fixed minimum wage rate and no upper limit
- Weekly disbursement of wages and delays not beyond a
fortnight
- 5. Objective of NREGA
- 6. Expectation from NREGA
- supplement employment opportunity
- Regenerate natural resource base of rural livelihood for
sustainable development
- Strengthen grass root processes of democracy
- Infuse transparency and accountability in governance
- 7. Key Processes of Implementation Application for job card
Issue of job card Demand for employment Work allocation Payment of
wages Selection of works Approval of shelf of projects Informing
village PRI Preparation of estimates And approvals Acknowledgement
of demand Maintenance of muster roll Verification
- 8. Other Institution mm Central employment guarantee Council
Gram panchyat Others Ministry of rural development Rural employment
guarantee scheme State employment guarantee council Intermediate
Panchayat Dist. Panchayat Dist. Program co-coordinator Program me
Officer Gram Sahbha
- 9. STAKEHOLDERS
- PRIs, specially the gram panchayat
- Programme Officer at the block level
- District Programme Coordinator
- Ministry of Rural Development
- 10. Funds
- 11. Fund 2010-11 MGNREGA
- Allocation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme raised to Rs 40,100 bn in FY10-11
- 12. Component of expenditure
- 13. Regenerating natural resource base of rural livelihood
- 14. Focused on three components : Capacity Building
- Information & knowledge (What to do ?)
- Methods & techniques (How to do ?)
- Outcome : Effective & Efficient implementation
- Work Planning & Execution
- Participatory Decentralised Planning of works
- Standard Check List for examination of AAPs
- Focuss on Natural Resource Management :
- 15. Transparency & Accountability
- Social Audit : Soul of Empowerment & Guarantee
- NGOs being given a wider role
- Two Model districts being setup
- Social Audit completed in all the Panchayats
- Social Audit by MKSS A reputed NGO
- 16. NGO and MGNRGEA (social audit of NRGEA State of Rajasthan)
- The social audits proposed that addressing basic issues :
- adequate honorarium and allowance to elected
representatives,
- Increasing administrative, technical and managerial staff at
the lowest level
- Establishing responsibility for proper maintenance of
records
- Scope for possible monetary deviations and reduce the slack in
implementation.
- 17. Contd..
- Transparency measures: labor and material
- Muster rolls: reduced delays in wage payment and non-payment of
wages
- Large numbers of men and women have attended the public
hearings held as part of the audits to testify against false
records and register their discontent
- 18. Awareness Generation andCapacityBuildingon NREGS(CAPART )
- Social mobilization and awareness generation through door to
door contact campaign, village convention, personal contact
programmes.
- Training of NREGA workforce, membersof village vigilance and
monitoring committee, members of Gram Panchayat and Gram Rozgar
Sewak on NREGA procedure and their roles.
- Enabling local community to apply under NREGA for various
entitlements covered under its legal guarantee.
- 19. Contd..
- Enabling NREGA workforce to verify the benefits due to
them,inter alia, their muster rolls, and job cards entries.
- Submitting reports as desired by the Ministry
- 20. Transparency
- (1) Job Cards ( in the custody of workers)
- (3) Measurement Books and
- (1) Acceptance of employment application,
- (2) Issue of dated receipts,
- (3) Time bound work allocation and wage payment,
- (4) Citizen Information Boards at worksites,
- (5) Vigilance Monitoring Committees,
- (6) Regular block, district and
- 21. Jharkhand, is to plug loopholes in the system
- In Haryana, women like Santosh told us that the Sarpanch who
has to implement the work plan had been discouraging. He had also
refused to mark their attendance or pay minimum wages.
- In Jharkhand, one of the worst performing states, Chabutri Devi
got her job card in January 2007 but all she has to show since then
is just 22 days of work. Worse she has not been paid her
wages.
- Experts say the problem is an unstable political environment
and the fact that implementing institutions like the Panchayati Raj
are absent from the state.
- 22. Issues of NREGA
- Lack of initiative on the part of Sarpanch and the TDOs
- Lack of awareness at the Taluka and Village level despite
intensive IEC activities
- Failure on the part of District Administration to get the
village plan implemented.
- Lack of desire among the people to undertake NREGA works.
- Non involvement of line Departments in implementation of
NREGA
- Lack of technical support
- 23.