Pgdm a Group 4 Nrega

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Group IV

Jaspreet Singh Gulati (19) Martin Anthony(31)

Kaustubh Joshi (23) Balaji SR (46)

K N Praveen (27) Jacob Varughese (58)


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NREGA- Salient Features

Employment to all those who are willing to work (100 days)

Free registration with a job guarantee within 15 days of application

At least 1/3rd of the employees must be women

Fixed minimum wage rate and no upper limit

Weekly disbursement of wages and delays not beyond a fortnight

Unlimited supply of funds for this project

Now called as MGNREGA


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Phase I NREGA(200 districts)

(Backward Districts ranked onbasis of agricultural wages,

output per agricultural workerand SCT/ST population of thedistrict)

Phase II NREGA(130 districts)

Phase III NREGA(next 266)

Complete implementation in

619 districts

NREGA COVERAGE (1st Nationwide employment scheme )


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Infrastructure Objectives

General shortage of productive infrastructure in rural areas

Creation of permanent assets assumed to have positiveimpact on agri and non-agri activities

Assets would lead to indirect employment generation in

both farm and non farm sectors Assets created are :

Water conservation & harvesting

Drought proofing ( afforrestation)

Irrigation projects(micro and minor irrigation )

Flood Control

Rural Connectivity

Desilting of tanks


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Key Processes

Application for job card

Issue of job card

Demand for employment

Work allocation

Payment of wages

Selection of works

Approval of shelf of

projects

Informing village PRI

Preparation of estimates

And approvals

Acknowledgement of

demand

Maintenance o

f muster roll

Verification


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Issues critical to fulfillment of NREGA

objective

Generating and processing applications for job cards

Issue of job cards

Obtaining and acknowledging applications for employment

Proper Selection and Execution of works by Gram Sabha

Regular measurement and Supervision of work

Payments of wages

Adequate quality of work site facilities for women

and men labourers


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144 Croreperson-days of employment

34 Mn Households benefited in 619 districts

About 4.19 Cr rural households provided jobs

Highest ever allocation ofRs39,100 Cr

Improved employment per rural household, share of

women in workforce, expenditure per district, share of wages

in total expenditure

Decreased % of STs benefiting from NREGAIncrease in daily wages by whopping 15%

Improved utilization of funds from 73% to 80%

Implementation & Effectiveness of

NREGA


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Financing the Cost

Central Govt

Entire cost paid to unskilled manual labour

75% of the material cost + wages of semi skilled and

skilled workers

Admin salaries and allowances of Central Govt staff

State Govt

25% of the material cost + wages of semi skilled andskilled workers

Admin salaries and allowances of State Govt staff


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Payment through Smart cards

Funds for NREGA

Procedure adopted for fund release

IT Interface to NREGA

Strategies for strengthening Management support to NREGA

Functioning of NREGA


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State wise performance

Leaders Laggards

Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and

Chhattisgarh

Account for more than half of

the total employment

Haryana and Uttarakhand

Improved Women workforce

Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana,

Maharashtra, Punjab and West

Bengal

Perform worse than previous

years

Punjab, Bihar and HP

Less than 33% women

workforce


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Key flaws

Over-Reporting : No of households issued a job card is greater thanno of households in the district

Delays : issuance of job card, allocation of work in 15 days

Discrimination: against SCs, Women and disabled

Inflated wage figures : Actual figures much less than what receivedby the workers

No compensation paid in case of delay beyond 15 days in payment

Quality of Assets

75% cost of material paid by Central Govt directly to districts workload of keeping 600 odd district-wise accounts

Corruption , fudging in muster rolls, workdays errors Rampant


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Challenges

Information, Education and Communication(IEC)activities

Ensure quality of assets created

Reactivating the panchayat in all the villages Ensuring effective utilization of funds-reducing

leakages

Accountability and fixing responsibility for specific

acts of omission and commission(Social Auditing) Grievance redressal system (RTI)

MIS system implementation


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Recent Policy implementations

If revenue spending that creates assets is counted as

capital expenditure Revenue deficit will come

down to 2.7% of GDP next fiscal from budgeted 4%

NREGA builds mostly capital assets 40100 cr

Funding NREGA - of the Rs 40,100 crore - 47% to

be financed from the National Investment Fund.


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Thank You!

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