Transcript Orientation of new districts - Mahatma Gandhi National Rural

Session 1.Overview of NREGA
What your bag contains?
• A copy of National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act.
• Copy of Operational Guidelines.
• Copy of supplementary guidelines-progress
reports formats
• NREGA made simple
• Video CD-a short film on NREGA and other
material for communication.
• Muster Roll Watch-guidelines for conducting
muster roll verification
NREGA: Objective
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An Act to provide a legal Guarantee of 100
days of wage employment in a financial
year to every rural household whose adult
members volunteer to do unskilled manual
work at the minimum wage rate notified for
agricultural labour prescribed in the State
Coverage
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The Act will extend to the entire country
within five years of its notification.
In the first phase, the Act was notified on
February 2nd 2006 in 200 districts.
In the second phase, the Act is to be
notified in 130 additional districts. 113
districts have been notified under NREGA
wef April 1, 2007.
Issue
Other Wage Employment
Programmes(SGRY)
NREGA
Status
Programme
Statute.
Focus
Infrastructure
Employment generation
Process
Supply led. Works opened Demand-based. Application by
by implementing agencies
Wage seekers for employment and
then works are opened
& then labour is engaged
Labour
Any one can be engaged as Only Job Cards holders that apply
labour
for employment
Time frames None
Employment within 15 days of
demand,
Payment within 15 days of work
Duration of Dependent on duration of
Employment work by implementing
agency
Legal Guarantee of as many days
of employment as a job card
holder applies for, subject to
maximum 100 days
Issue
Other Wage
NREGA
Employment
Programmes(SGR
Y)
Nature of
works
Any work
No 60:40 ratio of
wage -material
60:40 ratio of wages and material
Permissible works:
Financial
Support
-25% State share
-75% Centre share
-Fixed Allocation to
State
-Fixed share to
each PRI tier:
20%-ZP
30%-IP
50%-GP
-Demand Based.
-No fixed allocation to State
-No fixed allocation to PRI.
Incentive structure in the release of Central share
Central Funds are released on the basis of
Demand for employment received in a district
and the districts provision of guaranteed
employment within 15 days.
90% assistance from Centre if employment is
provided within 15 days of demand.
If not, then State will pay unemployment
allowance at its own cost.
Application for Registration
Step 1: Application for Registration
• Unit of Entitlement is the Household.
• A household in the notified district will need to apply for
registration to the local Gram Panchayat.
• Application for registration may be in a form prescribed or
a plain paper.
• If there is a prescribed form, the form will be free of cost
and easily available at the GP
• Oral applications may also be submitted.
Verification of the Registration
Application
Step 2: Verification of the Registration Application: The
Gram Panchayat will verify the application on the basis
of:
i) local domicile (ii) All household members applying for
registration are adult.
- No discrimination is made in registration in terms of
caste, creed, gender.
- Single Women living alone may register
independently
-NREGA is not confined to BPL families.
Registration
for JOB CARD
Step 3: After verification, the house hold will
be registered.
• Unit of Registration: Household (HH).
• The names of adult members applying
will be registered in the Registration
Register.
Issue of JOB CARD
Step 4: Issue of Job Card
• Job Card is the basic legal document valid for five
years which enables the registered household to
demand guaranteed employment.
• One Job Card will be issued to a registered
household as a whole.
• The household Job Card will have the
photograph and name of each registered adult
member of the household on it.
• Cost of Job Card including photograph will be
borne on the programme.
• Job Card should be issued within 15 days of
application.
Format of Job Card
• Job Cards must have space for entering vital
data that must be regularly entered that includes:
- Unique registration number
- Days of employment demanded
- Days worked
- Amount paid
• Job Cards issued will be entered in a Job Card
register in the Gram Panchayat.
Demand Process
Application for Employment
Step 5. Application for Employment
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A household that has a Job Card has the right to submit a written
application for employment to the Gram Panchayat.
Any member may apply: more than one member of a family may
apply at the same time (subject to 100 day family entitlement)
The applicant may chose the time and duration when
employment is sought.
The application must state the day from which employment is
sought and for how long.
The application has to be for a minimum of 15 days of
employment
Guarantee Process :
Acknowledgement of application for Employment
Step 6
• Employment application will be entered in an
Employment Register in the Gram Panchayat.
• The Gram Panchayat has to issue a Dated
Receipt of the written application for
employment.
Guarantee Process :
Allocation of Employment
Step 7
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Employment will be given within 15 days of application for work or
from the date from which employment is sought, which ever is
later.
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If applicant does not report for work no unemployment allowance
payable, but he/she is not barred from re-applying for work.
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Employment should normally be within 5 kilometers radius of the
village where the applicant reside. If it is more than that, then it
must still be within the block and 10% of the wage rate as extra
wages will be paid.
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Intimation of work provided has to be sent in writing and by public
notice at the Village Panchayat office.
Payment of Unemployment Allowance.
• If Employment is not provided within 15
days, daily unemployment allowance, in
cash has to be paid. States will pay the
Unemployment Allowance at their own
cost.
Planning of works
• Planning of works to allocate employment within
guaranteed time
• Instrument for providing employment are works selected
from the list of permissible works under Schedule I of the
Act.
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Permissible works are as follows:
-Water Conservation
-Drought Proofing( including plantation and afforestation)
-Flood Protection
-Land Development
-Minor Irrigation, horticulture and land development on the
land of SC/ST/ -BPL/IAY and Land reform beneficiaries
-Rural connectivity
• 60:40 ratio of wages and materials has to be maintained
and this may be maintained at the district level.
Planning Process
Decentralised, Participatory Process. PRIs principal role
• Gram Sabhas initiate Planning process and
recommend works
• Gram Panchayat consolidate recommendations of
Gram Sabha into Village Development Plans and
forward to intermediate Panchayat level
• Intermediate Panchayat: Programme Officer will
consolidate Gram Panchayat Plans into Block Plans
with addition of works that cut across gram panchayats
for approval of Intermediate Panchayat
• District Panchayat: District Programme Coordinator will
consolidate Block Proposals and proposals received from
other implementing agencies for inclusion in the shelf of
projects to be approved by the District Panchayat
Execution of Work
Implementing Agencies
• There is no fixed percentage allocation of works as in
SGRY:50-GP/30 –IP/20-ZP
• However, at least 50 % of the works has to be allotted to
Gram Panchayats. More may be given to them.
• Other Implementing Agencies:
-Other Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
-Line departments (PWD, Forest Dept.)
-NGOs.
-SHGs
Private contractors are banned.
Payment of wages
• Labourers are entitled to the statutory minimum wage for
agricultural labourers in the state, unless the Central
Government “notifies” a minimum of Rs 60/day.
• Wages to be paid weekly, or in any case not later than a
fortnight.
• Only Cash
Mandatory worksite facilities
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Drinking water
Shade
Medical aid
Creche if more than five children below
age 6 are present
Note: These facilities are to be provided by
the implementing agency.
Film
• How NREGA should be implemented?
Public accountability
• Gram Sabhas will conduct social audits of all works
taken up within Gram Panchayat
• All accounts and records relating to the Scheme are to
be made available for public scrutiny and any person
desirous of obtaining a copy of such records may be
provided such copies on demand and after paying
specified fee.
• A copy of muster rolls of each work has to be made
available in the offices of Gram Panchayat and the
Programme Officer [at the Block level] for inspection by
any person interested after paying specified fee.
• Annual Report to Parliament & Legislature.
EGS: Cost sharing
• Central Government to pay for:
– wage costs,
– 75% of material costs, and
– some administrative costs.
• State governments to pay for:
– 25% of material costs
– other administrative costs,
– unemployment allowance.
Statutory processes that become
effective with notification
• Registration for Job Card at GP level
• Verification of Job by GP
• Issue of Job Card within at least a fortnight
of application
• Application for employment
• Allocation of work within 15 days of demand
• Wage Payment within 15 days of work
completion