Transcript ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME …

ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL
EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME
Under NREGA
Department of Rural Development
The right to work in the Directive Principles”
of the Constitution
The State shall… direct its policy towards securing
that the citizen, men and women equally, have the
right to an adequate means of livelihood…”
(Article 39A)
“The State shall … make effective provision for
securing the right to work…” (Article 41)
Wage Employment Programmes
[WEP]
• National Rural Employment Programme [NREP]: 198089
• Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme
[RLEGP] : 1983-89
• Jawahar Rozgar Yojna[JRY]: 1989-99
• Employment Assurance Scheme [EAS]: 1993-99
• Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojna[JGSY]: 1999-2002
• Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna[SGRY]: since
September 2001
• National Food For Work Programme [NFFWP]: launched
on November 14, 2004
Problems of existing WEP
1. Lack of awareness
2. Lack of Planning
3. Quality of assets created not always of requisite
standard
4. Reports of false muster rolls
5. Problems in Payment: often less than prescribed
wages and
6. Disparity between wages paid to women and men.
7. Contractors persisted
8. No comprehensive data-base
9. Inadequate Capacity of implementing agencies.
10. No Public Accountability
NREGA : Paradigm Shift
• National Rural Employment Guarantee Act:
2005 - From Programme to Act
• Enacted by Parliament in Sept 2005
OBJECTIVES
• To provide
-Hundred days of wage employment
-Unskilled manual work to any adult
who seeks work
-Livelihood security to rural households
• Creation of durable community assets
NON-NEGOTIABLES
• Hundred days of wage employment on
demand in a financial year to the registered
households
• Payment on weekly basis
• Equal wages to men and women
• Ban on contractors and labour-displacing
machines
• Only works identified by gram panchayat,
Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad
WORK SITE FACILITIES
• Engaging “Aaya” for taking care of children
at work sites
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Engaging water persons for supply of
drinking water at worksites
Providing shade and floor sheet at work site
• First aid box at worksite and medical
facilities
Category of works
Priority wise
• Water conservation & Water harvesting
• Drought Proofing including Afforestation
• Irrigation Canals including Micro/Minor
Irrigation Works
• Provision of irrigation facilities to SC/ST
• Renovation of traditional Water bodies
• Land development
• Flood control & Protection Works
• Rural connectivity
• Any other works approved by GOI
Key players
• Village: Field Asst, GP Secretary, Grama
Panchayat
• Mandal: PO, MPDO, MPP
• District: PD DWMA, DPC(Dist Collector),ZP
• Tribal Areas: PO ITDA
Role of PRI s
• PRIs play an imp role in planning and
implementation
• 75 % works by GP
• 15% by Mandal Parishad
• 10 % by Zilla Parishad
GP is the implementing agency for all works
NREGA Andhra Pradesh
• NREGA is in implementation in 13
districts, 656 Intermediate Panchayaths
and 13000 Grama Panchayaths
Districts
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Vizayanagaram
Chittoor
Kadapa
Anantapuram
Mehaboobnagar
Rangareddy
Warangal
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KareemNagar
Nizamabad
Adilabad
Nalgonda
Medak
Khammam
So far Progress
• No of House Holds issued Job Cards 45
lakhs
• No of individuals provided employment 19
lakhs
• Expenditure Rs 260 crores
• No of works commenced and in progress
100000
NREGA Types of Works Andhra Pradesh
Nature of works taken up
• 70 % water conservation
• 10 % Irrigation related
• 5% Plantations
• 2 % road connectivity
• 13 % others
Provisions for disabled
• 150 days of employment
• Priority in works like worksite facilities
Nursery raising and plantation
Issues and Concerns
• No rights perspective among labourers
• Who will demand? Does poor have
capacity to demand? Resulting into
-delay in starting works
- poor participation of disabled
-delay in payments
-delay in providing worksite
facilities
Issues and Concerns
• Works should be approved in open Gram
sabhas – Poor attendance
• Muster rolls must be available on worksite
Uniqueness of APREGS – Software
package
Addressing Earlier short comings :
• Delays in preparation of estimates by the
engineers
• Tendency to boost up the estimates
• Lack of transparency in the preparation of
estimates
• Non availability of the estimates for public
scrutiny
• Non availability of estimates in local language
NREGA Andhra Pradesh
EGS software handles transactions such as
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Generation of Job Cards
Preparation of estimates
Preparation of shelf of projects
Generation of Work Commencement orders
Generation of Work wise measurement sheets
Generation of pay orders
Generation of wage slips to individual labour
APREGS web site: www.nrega.ap.gov.in
The website enables any one to view the
following
• Job cards issued relating to any
panchayath
• The shelf of works
• Progress of works
• Estimates of the works in progress
• Wages paid to the workers
• Paid muster rolls
Social Audit
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Mandatory in the act
Taken up in 4 districts
Plan to reach all Dists and mandals
Declared as Resource State for 6 states in
the country
• Follow up actions ensured
• Civil society organisations were involved
Unique Achievements
• Work-Time motion studies
• Rural SSR
• Minimum wages – average rate in the state Rs
85/• Equal wages for men and women
• Full data base – Available in web site.
• Exclusive staff for EGS
• Women participation 48 %
• Payments direct to individuals thro post offices
Exclusive staff for EGS positioned
At village level - Field Asst
At Mandal Level – 3 Tech Assts
_ 2 Computer Operators
_ 1 Prog Officer
At Dist Level
_ Project Director
_ Addnl Project Director
_ 3 Program Managers
At State
_ Director
_ SPM and 7 PMs