AP National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Under NREGA

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ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL

EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME

Under NREGA

Department of Rural Development


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Theright to work in the Directive Principles

of the Constitution

The State shall direct its policy towards securing

that the citizen,men and womenequally, 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)


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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


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Problems of existing WEP

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

standard4. 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


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NREGA : Paradigm Shift

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act:2005 - From Programme to Act

Enacted by Parliament in Sept 2005


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OBJECTIVES

To provide

-Hundred days of wage employment

-Unskilled manual work to any adultwho seeks work

-Livelihood security to rural households

Creation of durable community assets


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NON-NEGOTIABLES

Hundred days of wage employment ondemand in a financial year to the registeredhouseholds

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


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WORK SITE FACILITIES

Engaging Aaya for taking care of childrenat work sites

Engaging water persons for supply ofdrinking water at worksites

Providing shade and floor sheet at work site

First aid box at worksite and medicalfacilities


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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


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Key players

Village: Field Asst, GP Secretary, GramaPanchayat

Mandal: PO, MPDO, MPP

District: PD DWMA, DPC(Dist Collector),ZP

Tribal Areas: PO ITDA


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NREGA Andhra Pradesh

NREGA is in implementation in 13districts, 656 Intermediate Panchayathsand 13000 Grama Panchayaths


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Districts

Vizayanagaram

Chittoor

Kadapa

Anantapuram

Mehaboobnagar

Rangareddy

Warangal

KareemNagar

Nizamabad

Adilabad

Nalgonda

Medak

Khammam


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So far Progress

No of House Holds issued Job Cards 45lakhs

No of individuals provided employment 19lakhs

Expenditure Rs 260 crores

No of works commenced and in progress100000


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NREGA Types of Works Andhra Pradesh

Nature of works taken up

70 % water conservation

10 % Irrigation related 5% Plantations

2 % road connectivity

13 % others


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Provisions for disabled

150 days of employment

Priority in works like worksite facilitiesNursery raising and plantation


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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 worksitefacilities


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Issues and Concerns

Works should be approved in open Gramsabhas Poor attendance

Muster rolls must be available on worksite


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Uniqueness of APREGS Software

packageAddressing Earlier short comings :

Delays in preparation of estimates by theengineers

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


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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


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APREGS web site: www.nrega.ap.gov.in

The website enables any one to view thefollowing

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


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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


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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


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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


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