MGNREGS : Panchayat-Centred or People-Centred?

Presented byLGB7 Amrita Das-UR14046Ankit Kumar Jain-Ur14048Anushree Gupta-UR14049Pratheesh P-Ur14066Rakesh Jalan –UR14070Suchindram-UR14080Vinay Kumar Mundhra-UR14084

MGNREGS- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Central Government

State

District

Block

Gram Panchayat

Source: IFPRI- How to Overcome the Governance Challenges of Implementing NREGA

Beneficiary

Contractors

GP Secretary

Gram Sabha

Funds

Job Card

Zero Account

Problems faced by the beneficiaries• Lack of capacity building• Lack of awareness• No proper information flow

between the GP and job card holder

• No funds for maintenance of any assets created

• Non payment of wages• Lack of knowledge among the GP

members• Personal interest of the GP

members• Forgery of documents to procure

the paymentKey Stakeholders and

factors

• NREGA is a demand based public policy intervention – it should also be supply based

• Availability of machineries/technologies

• Lack of awareness of the rights

• Corruption- nexus between government officials and contractors

• Beneficiaries inclined towards the short term benefits

• Conducting social audit

Source - ESID

NREGA-DASHBOARD

We as Young Professionals- Approach• Provide them with better insights about MGNREGA

• Run the awareness program for the villagers – Rights, Job cards, bank accounts, auditing, DBT

• We should motivate and also train the panchayat members about the MGNREGA

• We can initiate the social audit process

• It is important to raise the discrepancies to the higher levels

•Use RTI as a tool for better accountability

•Work should be planned as per the need of the community: Bottom Up approach.