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Report Card: 100 Days of Work (MGNREGA)

Item

Max.

Marks Score

Creating Employment 20 0

Only 4572 households (0.04%) of job card holders have got 100 days of

work so far

Average person days of work is 13 so far and projected at less than 20 at

the end of the year

Number of households provided work likely to decline from 53 lakhs in

2010-11 to 35 lakhs in 2011-12

Total Expenditure 10 1

Total Expenditure on MGNREGA is likely to be 40-46% less than 2010-11

Share of wages in total expenditure has increased to 65%

2% overheads money is lying unused

Timely payment 10 3

31% of wages continue to be paid late

Improvement in time period by which wages are paid from 52% late

payment to 31% late payment in 2010-11

Compensation for late payment of wages 10 0

No such payment is being made

Decision on one case pending for two years

Unemployment Allowance

10 0

No procedure or payment though tens of thousands of people are not given

work on applications

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Development and NREGA 10 0

Despite being short of funds and desperately in need of money, State

Government is not using MGNREGA funds that are available on demand

Development and NREGA: Jungal Mahal 10 0

Only 733 households have completed 100 days of work

Average person days so far in 2011-12 is only 15, likely to be only 23 at the

end of the year

More than half the job card holders were provided with work in 2010-11,

today only one fourth (projected to become 36%) of the households get

work

Women in NREGA 10 3

New tasks being proposed that will remove previous advantage that women

had with lower tasks

Marginal improvement from 32% in 2010-11 to 34% in 2011-12 in

percentage of work provided to women

Grievance redressal 10

Poor system of grievance redressal continues with administration treating

complaints with hostility

Only 4 Ombudsman for grievance redressal for the entire state

TOTAL 100 7

Report Card: Subsidised Food Through Public Distribution System

Item Max. Marks Score

Expansion of Coverage 10 2

Extra food grains amounting to 2.59 lakhs MTs allotted on 10th October

2011 for 10 poorest districts are still lying unused

Marginal expansion has been made to all those with income less than

Rs36000 pa for non tribals and Rs.42000 pa for tribals in 23 blocks of

Purulia, Bankura and Paschim Midnapore

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Decision to provide AAY cards to all homeless in Kolkata

Expansion in per family quantity 20 8

Improvement in lifting of food grains from central allocation

Quantity allotted per family per week increased by 10 kgs to 17 kgs per

month

BUT Increased quantities are not reaching ration card holders

Prices 10 6

Prices of all additional quantities have remained the same with State

Government allotting extra money for subsidies on rice

BUT Ration dealers generally round off figures (e.g. in the case of wheat toRs.5 instead of charging Rs.4.65) , such that full advantage does not reach

ration card holder

PDS Reforms: curbing private ration dealers and wholesalers 15 6

Ruling party has resisted attempts by ration dealers association to make

TMC leaders their patron

No policy move on taking away ration shops from private dealers and giving

to public /community bodies

Orders on doorstep delivery by Government of India for removal of

middlemen have been implemented in name only

PDS reforms: computerisation and bogus cards 10 2

Only 3.5 lakhs out of estimated 1.4 crore bogus cards been have cancelled

so far (2.5% )

Task force set up for computerisation of cards and all other information

PDS Reforms : Revamping Vigilance committees 15 6

Minister is heading state level committee himself; increased representation

of civil society representatives at all levels is being encouraged

BUT Meetings of district and sub-divisional level committees are being

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called rarely; block and shop level committees have still not been formed.

PDS Reforms: Other Transparency measures 10 2

Toll free number has been set up

BUT Toll free number responds rarely to complaints

GO given asking for public availability of information on allocations

BUT Field inspectors are unwilling to share information on weekly

allotments with public

Procurement 10 4

Increased emphasis and increased target for procurement of paddy

Cheque payment made compulsory to ensure transparency

BUT Infrastructure for decentralised procurement from farmers, and for

farmers to receive payments to cheques is not in place

BUT Government lacks funds to do direct purchase from farmers and is

having to rely on rice millers and their middlemen, who are arm-twisting.

TOTAL 100 36

Report Card : Minimum Wages

Item

Max.

Marks Score

Revision of minimum wages 25 11

Minimum wage for only 31 trades out of 61 trades revised and notified

State Government has followed the path laid out by the previous Left Front

Government to accept 2700 calories and other 15th Indian Labour

Conference recommendations as the norm for fixing minimum wage

Food basket the same as the Left Front . The food basket used to calculate

the minimum wage has calculated 60% of calories as coming from rice,

making it a cheap but depressing the unhealthy food basket and total wage

calculated.

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No provisions for health and education, in contravention of Supreme Court

orders

No process started to clear cases where employers have brought injunctions

on minimum wage notification

State Minimum Wage Advisory Board has been made defunct

Substantial jump of Rs. 17 in wages of tea plantation workers in Doars and

Terai at Government initiative

Employers have been forced to accept that they will discuss variable dearness

allowance in tea wages in the next 6 months

Tea plantation wages at Rs.85 are still below the agricultural minimum wage

of Rs.167

Higher wages of Zone A to apply to all urban areas

Enforcement of Minimum wages 40 0

No initiative taken to enforce minimum wages.

Enactment of measures to enable workers to get quick redressal 20 0

No action taken, no improvement in labour courts

Identity cards for unorganised sector workers 5 0

No action taken

Special measures for workers of closed industry 10 0

No action taken

TOTAL 100 11

Report Card: Protection of Contract and Unorganised Sector Workers

Item

Max.

marks Score

Registration of workers under Unorganised Sector Social Welfare Act 10 2

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Emphasis on registration of workers for first month of Government

Taken up as publicity measure with Minister and labour officals going to

workers sites for registartion for first month of Government with no follow up

No funds put forward by Government for welfare measures under this Act

Protection of Unorganised Sector workers 15 0

93% workers who are in unorganised sector remain unprotected

No umbrella legislation for protection of workers

Equal Remuneration Act not enforced

No enactment of law or formation of Tripartite Board recommended by 2nd

national Labour Commission

Contract Workers 15 0

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition Act) not implemented

Continued illegal employment of contract workers in employment of

permanent nature

Government continues to employ contract labour illegally (for example pump

operators in PHE pumps)

Enforcement 30 0

No improvement in enforcement mechanism for labour laws

Labour law violation not treated seriously as human rights violation

Labour courts 30 0

Practically non functional and non-existent, with cases not disposed for years,

causing immense harm and loss to workers

TOTAL

100 2

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Report Card: Rights of Forest Dwellers Under Forest Rights Act 2006

Item

Max.

marks Score

Creation of Awareness About The Act 20 0

No awareness campaign about rights under The Scheduled Tribes And Other

Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition Of Forest Rights) Act, 2006

Forest Department and Nodal Department 20 0

Back ward classes Department is Nodal Department, but Forest Department

continues to control entire work in forest areas

Giving of Forest Rights 40 0

70% of claims filed by Village Forest Committees have been dismissed though

they are the authority under the Act. New government has not reversed this

trend in any way

Forest Rights in Jungal Mahal and other deprived areas 20 0

Other than some stray announcements on forest rights for Jungal Mahal people,no action taken

No action taken in other deprived areas like Sundarbans and North Bengal

TOTAL 100 0