Conference of Chief Secretaries

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Conference of Chief Secretaries 22 April,
2008 Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
Department of Rural Development Government of
India
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Presentation Structure

• NREGA Wage Employment
• SGSY Self Employment
• PMGSY Bharat Nirman Rural Roads
• IAY Bharat Nirman -- Rural Housing
• NSAP Social Assistance Old Age
  Pension
• Performance
• Areas of Concern
• Systemic Issues that need greater focus
• Time Bound Action Plan

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
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National Overview
Performance as of March,08(provisional) Employmen
t Provided 3.15 Crores HH Persondays 129.22
Crores Average Persondays to a HHPhase-I-
44 Phase-II- 27 SC ST 57.16 Women
41.78 Works Taken up 16.63 Lakhs Water
Conservation Irrigation Facilities 63.21 Wage
Rates range Rs. 50- Rs. 125 Central Release Rs.
12610.39 cr Total Expenditure Rs. 14263.42 cr.
TOTAL DISTRICT 602 Phase I
NREGA(200) (commenced 2.02.06)
Phase II NREGA(130) (extended on 1.4.07)
Phase III NREGA(272) (notified on
28.9.07)
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Person days of Employment Provided to a HH (Upto
Feb, 08)
Households Completed 100 Days 31.26 Lakhs (10)
States with large share of HH with 100
Days Rajasthan (23), MP (13), UP (7), AP (6)
Chattisgarh (6)
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Persondays of Employment Provided to a House
Hold Phase-I in comparison with FY 2006-07 (Feb,
2007 with Feb 08)
National Average- Phase-I - 44 Days (upto Feb,
2008
Backword Districts with low persondays
Maharastra Amravati (18 days), UP Gorakhpur
(19 days) WB 24 Pargana South (14 days),
Dinajpur Dakshin (16 days), Pashchim Medinipur
(19 days)
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Women Share of Employment as Percentage of Total
Persondays (Financial Year 2007-08)

• Schedule of Rates (SORs)
• Work site management Group system, Mate
  supervision leads to higher outturn and wages

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Percentage of Expenditure against Total Available
Fund(Financial Year 2007-08) upto Feb, 2008

• High Expenditure Districts Chattisgarh
  Bilaspur (232 Crore), Surguja (134 Crore),
  Rajasthan Udaipur (199 Crore), Dungarpur (175
  Crore), MP Sidhi (190 Crore), Dhar (184 Crore),
  Mandla (151 Crore), Balaghat (150 Crore), Barwani
  (138 Crore), Jhabua (135 Crore), Khargone (127
  Crore, AP Anantpur (154 Crore), Mahbubnagar (136
  Crore), Chittor (131 Crore).
• Low Expenditure Districts (below 10 Crore)
  Bihar Purnia, Kishanganj Kaimur, Orissa
  Boudh, Devgarh

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Areas of Concern

• Inadequate Planning of Projects, resulting in
  delay in starting works
• Inadequate Personnel, specially technical
  personnel causing delays in measurement and
  Payment
• Weak Transparency safeguards
• Processes Non-conformity to the Rights based
  processes
• Application process
• Non Issue of dated receipts
• Social audits
• Vital Documents not maintained
• Job Card entries not updated
• Numbered Muster Rolls not maintained on
  work site
• Measurement Books not maintained

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Systemic Issues that need greater focus

• Strengthening administrative system
• Intensifying IEC
• Augmenting Human resources
• Reinforcing Training
• Improving works planning and execution
• Strengthening Fund Management
• MIS
• Transparency and Public Accountability

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Augmenting Human Resources

• Dedicated personnel to be deployed by States
  (100 Central assistance)
• GP level at least one administrative assistant
  (Gram Rozgar Sahayak) for every Gram Panchayat
  and one technical assistant per 5-10 Gram
  Panchayats.
• Block level A full time Programme Officer not
  below BDO rank and additional staff for
  Accounts, Works and IT
• District level Additional staff for works, IT
  Accounts
• State level Existing Problem No technical
  support
• Now Technical support being provided in
  key areas
• Communication,
• Works
• IT,
• Training,
• Social audit
• Accounts.

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• Status of Personnel Deployed

No data on staffing has been reported by Haryana,
Manipur and Mizoram
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Strengthening IEC for social mobilisation

• Local cultural resources
• Media, specially local vernacular press
• Conventions Gram Sabhas
• Contact Campaigns
• Use of SHGs/NGOs for local inter personal
  communication
• Convergence with Adult Literacy/ Continuing
  Education Programme of National Literacy Mission

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Improving Planning and Work Execution

• Preparation of Perspective Plans and annual
  shelf of projects (1.5 times the anticipated
  demand)
• Location identity for worksite through recording
  of plot numbers.
• Indication of expected outcomes of works
  persondays to be generated, physical benefits
  (land/water conservation)
• Web based software applications for work
  estimation develop available at www.nrega.nic.in
• Citizen Information Board on each work site to be
  put up
• Trained Mates (specially women) for worksite
  management to be encouraged
• Better worksite facilities to encourage
  participation of women workers.
• Fuel-wood and fodder development to be encouraged
  to benefit women.

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Strengthening Fund Management

• Decentralized Fund Management
• States advised to set up State Funds u/s 21(1)
  for Central assistance
• MP, W. Bengal have set up. Orissa in process.
  Others to expedite
• Empowered Committee to approve Labour Budgets.
• Funds to be released in not more than two
  tranches that.
• 8 States Labour Budgets approved AP,
  Chattisgarh, UP, MP, Rajasthan, TN, W. Bengal,
  Orissa,
• Maharashtra, Tripura, Manipur, Uttarakhand,
  Gujarat, Mizoram, Sikkim also received
• Other States to expedite submission of Labour
  Budgets
• Payment of wages through Post Offices and Banks
  from April 1 08 onwards. 1.10 crores accounts
  opened AP, Karnataka, Jharkhand, W. Bengal,
  lead. Others to expedite

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Operationalising MIS

• Comprehensive Web-based MIS www.nrega.nic.in
• Data software engineered for
• Cross verification of records
• Report generation.
• Alerts for possible problems
• Four fold strategy for expediting MIS
  operationalization at the Block level
• Computers
• Personnel
• Training
• Connectivity
• Computers, connectivity through NREG over and
  above 4 administrative expense
• Outsourcing may be considered
• States that need to expedite MIS operations UP,
  Tamil Nadu, Assam, Karnataka, Bihar

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Transparency and Public Accountability

• Monitoring
• Activating Vigilance and Monitoring Committees
• Verification of works, muster rolls and records
  100 at block level, 10 at district level and
  2 at State level.
• State Employment Guarantee Council to be
  activised for monitoring and review. (Gujerat,
  Haryana, Assam to set these up)
• Transparency
• Citizens information Board on each work site
• Disclosure Making records data available for
  public scrutiny
• Public Accountability Social Audit for each work.
  Social Audit manual on NREGA website
• Grievance Redressal
• A grievance redressal cell at the district and
  the State levels
• Help lines at the Block district and State levels

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Summing up Priorities 08-09 (April July)
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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
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Progress under Bharat Nirman (rural roads) upto
Jan., 08
Based on ground verification by States and
taking into account habitations connected under
other schemes.
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Key Implementation Issues

• Strengthening of Institutional Capacity
• Augmentation of Contracting Capacity
• Ensuring timely availability of land
• Availability of construction material and royalty
  charges
• Online monitoring, quality control and
  maintenance arrangements

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Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)
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Physical Performance under SGSY
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Financial performance under SGSY
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Issues

• Strengthening of implementation and delivery
  mechanism
• Convergence and coordination with other agencies/
  Depts.
• Monitoring and Review Mechanism
• Awareness Generation Transparency
• Capacity Building Training
• SGSY Special projects - Placement Linked Skill
  Development
• Credit Disbursement
• Marketing linkages

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Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)
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Issues

• Selection of Beneficiaries
• to be from the Permanent IAY Waitlist based on
  2002 BPL survey
• lists not yet prepared by AP, Bihar, Haryana,
  Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tripura, WB,
  AN Island, DN Haveli, Daman Diu, Lakshadweep,
  Pondicherry
• Coverage of Sanitary Latrines
• needs to be 100
• Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Manipur,
  Meghalaya, Tripura Goa have poor performance
• Coverage of Minorities
• 15 of physical target is earmarked for
  minorities
• physical achievement is poor in all States
• Special Packages
• given for specific purposes like for floods,
  border concerns etc
• completion of houses therein has been
  unsatisfactory

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Action Plan for IAY during 2008-09

• Revised Unit Assistance
• to be applicable for IAY houses sanctioned after
  1.4.2008
• Physical target of 21.27 lakh
• retained at last years level of 21.27 lakh houses
  
• Rs. 100 crore proposed to be made available
• for incentivising the States to provide homestead
  plots
• National Rural Housing Habitat Policy to be
  finalized
• to address concerns of housing shortage
• to develop sustainable habitats in rural areas

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• National Rural Assistance Programme
• (NSAP)

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Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
(IGNOAPS)

• Eligibility criteria modified for old age pension
  
• -to include all persons above 65 years and who
  are BPL
• - to make coverage universal not budget based
• - will double the coverage from 87 lakh to about
  157 lakh
• Operationalizing IGNOAPS
• - 31 States have identified the eligible
  beneficiaries
• as per the modified criteria
• - Gujarat, Kerala, Meghalaya and Uttrakhand are
  yet to
• respond
• - coverage has increased upto 137.67 lakhs

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