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)

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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 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

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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

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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 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

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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

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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, Grama
  Panchayat
• Mandal PO, MPDO, MPP
• District PD DWMA, DPC(Dist Collector),ZP
• Tribal Areas PO ITDA

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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

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NREGA Andhra Pradesh

• NREGA is in implementation in 13 districts, 656
  Intermediate Panchayaths and 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 45 lakhs
• No of individuals provided employment 19 lakhs
• Expenditure Rs 260 crores
• No of works commenced and in progress 100000

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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 facilities
  Nursery 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 worksite facilities

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Issues and Concerns

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

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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

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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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