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8/6/2019 NREGA Presentation
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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005
An Act to provide for theenhancement of livelihoodsecurity of the householdsin rural areas of the countryby providing at least onehundred days of guaranteedwage employment in everyfinancial year to everyhousehold whose adultmembers volunteer to do
unskilled manual work
Strengthening the Right to Information
Proactive Disclosure under RTI- Problems & Perspectives
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Presentation Structure
NREGA StatusProactive Disclosure, Social Audits, Complaints
and Grievance Redressal
New InitiativesFuture direction and new initiatives
Good Practices
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Process Outcomes
Strengthen grass root processes of democracy
Infuse transparency and accountability
in governance
Auxiliary
Regenerate natural resource base for sustainable rural
livelihoods
o Water conservation & water harvesting
o Drought Proofing (afforestation & tree plantation)o Irrigation canals, micro & minor irrigation works
o Works individual land of SC/ST/BPL/IAY/ Landreform beneficiaries/ Small & Marginal farmers
o Renovation of traditional water bodieso Land development
o Flood control & protection, drainageo Rural connectivity
Primary
Supplement employment opportunities
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NREGA Objectives
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(FY2008-09)
615 Districts
(FY2009-10)
upto ugust, 09
619 Districts
mployment provided to households: 4.49 Crore 3.04 Crore
Total: 216.01 118.54
SCs: 63.39 [29%] 35.60 [30%]
STs: 54.78 [25%] 26.21 [22%]
Women: 103.41 [48%] 60.62 [51%]
Others: 97.84 [45%] 56.73 [48%]
verage personday per household 48 Days 39 Days
Budget utlay (In s Crore): 30000 39100
Central elease (In s Crore): 29939.60 15219.14
Total availa le fund [including B]: In s. Crore. 37483.94 26831.21
xpenditure (In s. Crore.) 27137.88 14398.64
verage wage per day s. 84 s. 88
Total works taken up (In Lakhs): 27.2 23.37
Works completed: 12.09 5.28
Water conservation: 12.50 [46%] 11.60 [49%]
Rural Connectivity: 4.91 [18%] 3.98 [17%]
Land Development: 3.97 [15%] 3.23 [14%]Any other activity: 0.25 [1 %] 0.22 [1%]
90.5 143.59P S D YS [in Crore]
FINANCIAL D TAIL
36.79 [41%] 61.15 [43%]
22.95 [25%] 39.36 [27%]
32.98 [36%] 42.07 [29%]
2.10 Crore 3.39 Crore
(FY2006-07)
200 Districts
(FY2007-08)
330 Districts
34.56 [38%] 62.16 [43%]
8640.85 12610.39
11300 12000
43 Days 42 Days
Provision of Irrigation facility to land owned by
SC/ST/ BPL and IAY benificiaries:0.81 [10%] 2.63 [15 %]
17.88
3.87 8.22
8.35
4.51 [54%]
0.34 [4%] 0.56 [3%]
8.73 [49 %]
1.80 [21%] 3.08 [17 %]
5.56 [20%] 4.34 [19%]
s. 75
0.89 [11%] 2.88 [16%]
12073.55 19,305.81
8823.35 15856.89
s. 65
W KS D TAIL
NREGA National Overview
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NREG Act: ro-active isclos re
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Citize Information oar
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NREGA Information on all of Gram anc ayat
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Muster Rolls at NREGA orksite
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MIS for rans arency & Accountability
Management Information System (MIS)
To bring transparency in the whole systemProvide single window interface for all the stake holders of
NREGA Track transfer of funds to various implementing agency
(sanction order, financial releases)
Prepare inventory of works/assets created under NREGA forfuture planning.
Register grievances of workers.Details of works and workers
Separate pages for approximately 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats, 6465Blocks, 619 Districts and 34 States & UTs.
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Job Cards & Muster Rolls in Public Domain (http://nrega.nic.in)
S NO. Upto
Month
Number of Job
Cards
(Since inception)
Number of Muster
Rolls
(Since inception)
1 JUN, 08 3.0 Crores 0.44 Crores
2 SEP, 08 4.9 Crores 0.78 Crores
3 DEC, 08 5.7 Crores 1.06 Crores
4 MAR, 09 6.0 Crores 1.18 Crores
5 MAY, 09 6.9 Crores 1.60 Crores
6 Mid SEP, 09 8.0 Crores 2.10 Crores
Daily 40-50 t ousandMuster Rolls are uploaded on t e ebsite by t e States.
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A mendments in the A ct to provide procedure for social audits
� Social audits to be conducted once in six months
� Prior planning and announcement of audit
� DPC & PO responsible for audit (planning & availability of
documents)
� Formation of Social A udit Committee (workers & 1/3 women)� Documents made available 15 days prior to S A C for verification
� Public representatives and concerned officials to attend
� S A C to read out findings.
�M
inutes recorded
Social Audits
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Women at a Social Audit in Rajast an
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Grievance
Redressal
Mechanism
Complaints
Grievance RedressalMec anism
Penalty
Provision
� A
mendment to the A
ct was made to provide procedure for effective redressal of complaints and enforcing Section 25
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Helplines & Grievance Redressal R ules
�Helplines for receipt of complaints & forwarding to state/districts
-Set up at Ministry
-States- A.P, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, H.P, J&K, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,Orissa, Sikkim, U.P, Uttarakhand , W.B, Goa
�Grievance Redressal Rules
Formulated by Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, H.P, J&K, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Nagaland,Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand
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Financial Inclusion
A mendment to sub-section I of Section 29 (Feb 2009)
7.75 crore NREGA bank and post office accounts have been opened
-
Separation of monitoring agency from payment agency -Encourages saving habits
-Money directly in the hand of workers
-Individual accounts in the name of women
C hallenges
-Poor coverage of bank and post office accounts
-Delay in payments
Payment through Business CorrespondentM
odels using latestICT technologies Smart Card & bio-metrics, A TMs (Information
& Communication Technology)
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Performance Feedback Sources
External & Independent MechanismsNational Level Monitors
� Studies commissioned in 2006-07 (5 studies, 28 districts, 11 states)
� 2007-08 (6 studies, 33 districts, 11 states)
�Professional Institutional Network (18 institutions, 18 states, 60 districts)
StatutoryMechanisms�C AG ( A udit of 68 districts in 128 blocks and 513 GPs) 2006-07
�Central Employment Guarantee Council
Internal Mechanisms�MPRs & MIS
�Performance Review Meetings
� A rea Officers for field verifications
�State, district, block level inspections
�Helplines, Complaints
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MajorChallenges
�Lack of adequate technical and administrative manpower atblock and GP levels (full time dedicated Programme Officers,administrative and technical assistants)
�Lack of A wareness
�Non-maintenance of records like job cards, dated receipts,employment registers, measurement books, asset registers,Muster Rolls�Non conduct of social audits
�Lack of adequate monitoring mechanisms
�Incorrect/non-standardized reporting of physical and financial
achievements�Instances of rent seeking and misuse of authority (inflatedestimates, bogus muster rolls, fund diversion)
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President·s A ddress to Parliament ² 4 June 2009
« increasing transparency and public accountability of NREGA by enforcing social audit and ensuring grievance redressal by setting up district level ombudsman.
...To ensure transparency and public accountability, independent monitoring and grievance redressal mechanisms will be set up at the district level «
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Ne Initiatives
Social A udits
�Issue of instructions to the State Governments for enforcement of the new social audit provisions under NREGA
� Organization of meeting of District Programme Coordinators at the State
level for drawing up action plan for social audit
�Social Audit Calendar and monitoring of audits online-Details of action taken uploaded
-Follow up action can be tracked down to the Gram Panchayat level
� Thirty seven National Level Monitor were deputed to 37 districts in 15
states for special monitoring of the social audit campaign initiated by the
Ministry.�Currently 89% of the Gram Panchayats are being covered under social
audits
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Ombudsman
1 Appointment �State Government to appoint Ombudsman based on the
recommendations of Selection Committee.
�Selection Committee will consist of Chief Secretary of State ,
Representative of Union Ministry of Rural Development,
eminent Civil Society person nominated by Ministry of RuralDevelopment and Secretary of Department in State
Government dealing with NREGA as Member-Covenor
2 Qualification �Persons with 20 years of experience in Public Administration
�Should not be more than 65 years
�No member of political party will be eligible
�He should be physically active�Prior publication of panel should be done in the official website
of the State for receiving comments within 30 days
�Selection Committee should dispose of objections within 30
days
�Anonymous comments and objections should not be considered
Instructions under Section 27 issued on establishment of district
level Ombudsman to States (within 3 months of September 7, 2009)
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3 Tenure & Removal �Tenure will be 2 years
�Tenure can be extended by one year based on performance or
up to 65 years of age
�No reappointment
�State Government can remove if unsatisfactory performanceand recommendation of Selection Committee
4 Autonomy �Ombudsman will be independent of State and Central
Government
5 Remuneration �A compensation of Rs.500/-Per sitting
6 Location of Office �District Headquarters
�One or more Ombudsman in each District
7 Office Support �DRDA (Distributed Relational Database Architecture) to provide
Technical and Administrative support or any other body
specified by the State Government
8 Appraisal �Selection Committee to appraise the performance regularly
every year
9 Powers �Lodge FIRs against the erring parties
�Direct redressal, disciplinary actions
�Inititate proceedings in the event of any circumstances that may
cause any grievance
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10 Disposal of
Complaints
�Ombudsman will issue notice to NREGA authority for appearance
�Case will be disposed by passing appropriate direction once the facts are
admitted
�Award should be based on evidence and incompliance with NREG Act,
instructions issued by State or Central Government
�Copy of award will be to parties�Costs may be imposed in case of false, malicious and complaints
�NREGA authority will comply with award within one month or pay penalty
at Rs.50 per day of delay
�The Penalty should not exceed the amount stipulated as fine in Section 25
of NREG Act
�Monthly report should be sent to Chief Secretary and Secretary in chargeof NREGA
�In case of Corruption the Ombudsman will forward the matter to take up
criminal prosecution
�A representative of Programme Officer/ District Programme Coordinator
may appear in cases where they are party
�Programme Officer/ District Programme Coordinator shall appear onlywhen a proceeding is taken up
�All cases that do not involve complicated questions of fact or law should
be disposed within 15 days
�Other cases may be disposed within 45 days
11 Appeal �There shall be no appeal against the award of Ombudsman
�The award of Ombudsman shall be final
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NREGA ith UIDA
NREGA partnership with Unique
Identification Development A uthority of
India (UID A ) has been initiated. Thedatabase of NREGA will be utilized by theUID Authority to expedite the development
of the identification system for the residents.