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Title: ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME Under NREGA


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ANDHRA PRADESH RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
SCHEMEUnder NREGA
Department of Rural Development
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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)

3
Wage Employment Programmes WEP
  • National Rural Employment Programme NREP
    1980-89
  • Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme
    RLEGP 1983-89
  • Jawahar Rozgar YojnaJRY 1989-99
  • Employment Assurance Scheme EAS 1993-99
  • Jawahar Gram Samridhi YojnaJGSY 1999-2002
  • Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar YojnaSGRY since
    September 2001
  • National Food For Work Programme NFFWP
    launched on November 14, 2004

4
Problems of existing WEP
  • Lack of awareness
  • Lack of Planning
  • Quality of assets created not always of
    requisite standard
  • Reports of false muster rolls
  • Problems in Payment often less than prescribed
    wages and
  • Disparity between wages paid to women and men.
  • Contractors persisted
  • No comprehensive data-base
  • Inadequate Capacity of implementing agencies.
  • No Public Accountability

5
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 adult who seeks
    work
  • -Livelihood security to rural households
  • Creation of durable community assets

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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

8
WORK 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

9
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

10
Key players
  • Village Field Asst, GP Secretary, Grama
    Panchayat
  • Mandal PO, MPDO, MPP
  • District PD DWMA, DPC(Dist Collector),ZP
  • Tribal Areas PO ITDA

11
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

12
NREGA Andhra Pradesh
  • NREGA is in implementation in 13 districts, 656
    Intermediate Panchayaths and 13000 Grama
    Panchayaths

13
Districts
  • Vizayanagaram
  • Chittoor
  • Kadapa
  • Anantapuram
  • Mehaboobnagar
  • Rangareddy
  • Warangal
  • KareemNagar
  • Nizamabad
  • Adilabad
  • Nalgonda
  • Medak
  • Khammam

14
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

15
NREGA Types of Works Andhra Pradesh
  • Nature of works taken up
  • 70 water conservation
  • 10 Irrigation related
  • 5 Plantations
  • 2 road connectivity
  • 13 others

16
Provisions for disabled
  • 150 days of employment
  • Priority in works like worksite facilities
    Nursery raising and plantation

17
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

18
Issues and Concerns
  • Works should be approved in open Gram sabhas
    Poor attendance
  • Muster rolls must be available on worksite

19
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

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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 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

22
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

23
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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