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



Presentation Structure

NREGA StatusProactive Disclosure, Social Audits, Complaints

and Grievance Redressal

New InitiativesFuture direction and new initiatives

Good Practices



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



(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



NREG Act: ro-active isclos re



Citize Information oar



NREGA Information on all of Gram anc ayat



Muster Rolls at NREGA orksite



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.



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.



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



Women at a Social Audit in Rajast an



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



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)



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



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)



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 «



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



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)



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



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



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.

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