ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME

Under NREGA

Department of Rural Development

TheThe right to work in the Directive Principles”right to work in the Directive Principles”of the Constitutionof 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]: 1980-89

• 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 awareness2. Lack of Planning3. Quality of assets created not always of requisite

standard 4. Reports of false muster rolls5. Problems in Payment: often less than prescribed

wages and6. Disparity between wages paid to women and men.7. Contractors persisted8. No comprehensive data-base9. 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 FACILITIESWORK SITE FACILITIES• Engaging “Aaya” for taking care of children

at work sites

• 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 worksPriority 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

• Vizayanagaram• Chittoor• Kadapa• Anantapuram• Mehaboobnagar• Rangareddy• Warangal

• 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

• 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

• 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