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
PRIMARY
supplement employment opportunity
auxiliary
Regenerate natural resource base of rural livelihood for
sustainable development
Process Outcomes
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
Key Stakeholders are:
Wage seekers
Gram Sabha
PRIs, specially the gram panchayat
Programme Officer at the block level
District Programme Coordinator
State Government
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
Material cost
Expenditure on wage
Administrative cost
Participation of women
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 ?)
Motivation (Why to do) ?
Time bound Action Plan
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
Audit Forums
Social Audit Manual
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
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
Documents :
(1) Job Cards ( in the custody of workers)
(2) Muster Rolls,
(3) Measurement Books and
(4) Asset Registers
Processes :
(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
state level inspections
(7) social audits
(8) MIS.
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