This document provides information about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in India. It discusses MGNREGA's core objectives of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment per rural household. The summary highlights statistics on job cards, employment generation, worker participation rates and assets created under the scheme from 2006-2015. It also outlines the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders like wage seekers, gram sabhas, program officers and state/central governments in implementing MGNREGA.
2. MGNREGA Mandate
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Mahatma Gandhi NREGA
For the enhancement of
livelihood security of rural
households by providing at
least one hundred days of
guaranteed wage employment
in every financial year to
every household whose adult
members volunteer to do
unskilled manual work
3. Core Objectives
Provision of unskilled, manual work, on demand
Up to 100 days per household in a year
Create productive assets
Strengthen livelihood resource base of rural poor
Proactive social inclusion
Focus on vulnerable
Strengthen grass-root democratic institutions
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4. Job cards and progress
Progress FY 15-16* FY 14-15 FY 13-14 FY 12-13
Approved Labour Budget
[In Cr PDs]
239.11 227.29 259.96 280.2
Persondays Generated
[In Cr]
87.60* 166.25 220.36 230.48
Total No. of Job Cards[In Cr] 12.98
Total No. of Active Job Cards[In Cr] 5.96
Total No. of Workers[In Cr] 27.32
Total No. of Active Workers[In Cr] 9.14
* Information upto 28th Sep, 2015
6. Impact: Extensive coverage
(No. of households worked in Cr)
30% of all rural HHs participated in the prog – Extensive coverage
2.10
3.39
4.51
5.26
5.49
5.06 4.99 4.79
4.14
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
7. Impact: Created employment for the rural poor
(Cr Persondays (PDs) created yearly)
90.51
143.59
216.32
283.59
257.15
218.76
230.48 220.36
166.25
239.11
0.00
50.00
100.00
150.00
200.00
250.00
300.00
8. Most work done in lean agri months
(in lakh PDs per month)
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0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
FY 11-12
FY 12-13
FY 13-14
FY 14-15
Nearly 70% of work done in only in lean agri season: Jan to July
9. Impact: Supplementary income to the poor
(in Rs per year per household)
• 70% of the income came during the lean agricultural seasons.
• High impact on reducing distress migration
2784
3169
4034
4864 4675 4799
5443 5536
5849
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
10. High participation of SCs/STs
(2014-15)
18.50%
11.30%
22.37%
17.01%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
SC ST
% in Census
% Participation
11. Impact: High Women Participation
(%age of total persondays)
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Helped in increasing the total women workers in the workforce (Census 2011)
40% 43%
48% 48% 48% 48%
51% 53% 55%
59%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
12. Expenditure
2015-16*
till 26th Sept
2014-15 2013-14 2012-13
Wages 14,651.95 24,212.26 26,535.38 27,153.53
Material and skilled Wages 4,283.81 9,426.68 9,693.29 10,429.98
Total Adm Expenditure 906.93 2,401.07 2,372.92 2,194.78
Total Exp 19,842.69 36,043.01 38,601.67 39,778.28
Material(%) 22.62 28.03 26.76 27.75
• Managed and monitored by an end-to-end IT system
• Electronic Fund management system connects 10 Crore Accounts
• All electronic payments under MGNREGA routed through PFMS
[ Rs in Cr]
13. Assets created (2011-12 to 2014-15)
[No. of asset in Lakhs]
13
Other, 3.5,
4%
BNGSK
0.1
Drought
Proofing, 7.5,
9% Flood Control and
Protection, 3.9, 5%
Land Development,
11.8, 14%
Micro Irrigation
Works, 6.7, 8%
Renovation of
traditional water
bodies, 5.2, 6%
Rural Connectivity,
18.4, 22%
Water
Conservation and
Water Harvesting,
15.1, 18%
Works on Individuals
Land (Category IV),
12.3, 14%
14. Works Details (Category wise)
Category Sub-Category
A NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Water Conservation
Watershed management
Irrigation
Traditional water bodies
Afforestation
Land development
B
INDIVIDUAL ASSETS FOR VULNERABLE
SECTIONS
Improving productivity of lands
Improving liveihoods through
Development of fallow/waste lands
Construction of house
Promotion of livestock
Promotion of fisheries
C
COMMON INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NRLM
COMPLIANT SHGs
Agriculture productivity
Common work-sheds for livelihood activities of SHGs
D RURAL INFRASTUCTURE
Rural sanitation
Road connectivity/Internal roads/Streets
Play fields
Disaster preparedness/Restoration
Construction of building
Food Grain storage structures
Production of building material required for construction
Maintenance
Any other works
15. Stakeholders Role
Wage seekers Demand employment
Gram Sabha Recommend works, Conduct social audits,
PRIs, specially the gram
panchayat
Planning of works, Registering households, Issuing Job Cards,
Receiving applications for employment, allocating employment,
Executing works, Maintaining records & Monitoring
Programme Officer at the
block level
Scrutinizing the annual development plan, Including the proposals of
the Intermediate Panchayat, Monitoring and supervising
implementation, Disposal of complaints, Ensuring that social audits,
Payment of unemployment allowance
District Programme
Coordinator
Oversight, complete responsibility for implementation, fund
utilization etc.
State Government Setting of SEGC, IEC, Ensuring that dedicated personnel are in place,
State share release, Training, monitoring and evaluation, Ensuring
accountability and transparency, unemployment allowance
Ministry of Rural Development CEGC, Ensuring timely and adequate resource support, Maintaining
and operating the MIS, Assess the utilization of resources, Support
innovations, Support the use of Information Technology, wages,
salaries
MGNREGA-Role of Stakeholders
16. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
16
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
1. Persondays (PD) generation
PD generation pace – target v/s
achievement during the current year and
also in comparison with the previous year
2. Timely Payment of wages Pace of FTO generation
17. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
17
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
3.
Asset Creation and
implementation of State
Convergence plan
a) % of works completed for the current
FY
b) Status of pending work pertaining to
earlier years
c) Focus on creation of individual
assets.
d) Public works relating to Natural
Resource Management.
e) Construction of IHHLs under SBM.
f) Construction of AWCs in convergence
with ICDS; Works related to
agriculture and allied activities to be
over 60 %.
18. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
18
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
4.
State Employment Guarantee
Council (SEGC) -meetings
held during the FY
Pl request for the current constitution
order and whether the minutes of the
meeting are Number of Programme
Officers in the State (Minimum Norm: 1
per Block) - available in public domain.
5.
Staffing position of minimum
core staff. Recruitment policy
for the GRS and other sub
district functionaries under
the scheme if any.
a) Number of Programme Officers in
the State (Minimum Norm: 1 per
Block)-
b) Are Programme Officers given
exclusive charge, or are they given an
additional charge-
c) Number of Additional Programme
Officers appointed in the State (if
any) Contd....
19. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
19
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
5.
d) Number of Technical Assistants
available for measuring MGNREGA
work
e) Number of Mates (Minimum Norm:
1 per 100 active job cards )
f) Number of Gram Rozgar Sahayaks
(Minimum Norm: 1 per Gram
Panchayat )
g) Number of Junior Engineers available
for measuring MGNREGA work and
the State’s norm for appointing them
h) Number of data entry operators in
the State and the norms of
deputation
20. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
20
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
6.
Appointment of
Ombudsmen
Pl request for the list indicating the date
of appointment and tenure.
7.
Key entitlements of
MGNREGS worker.
a) Right to have a Job Card if willing to do
unskilled manual labour, which must remain
with the household at all times.
b) Every household has a right to register to apply
for work for a maximum of 100 days.
c) For every demand for work application made,
the worker has a right to get a dated receipt
immediately.
d) The worker has a right to get employment
within 15 days from the date of application.
e) Muster rolls to be made available at the
worksite
21. Check list under MGNREGS for field visits
to be undertaken
21
Sr.
No.
Indicator Points For Examination
8. Organisation of Rozgar Diwas Pl request for the schedule.
9.
Social Audit schedule and
uploading of the reports.
a) Does the State SAU have an
independent Bank Account and
financial powers delegated to it
b) Does the State SAU have full time
State Resource Persons and District
Resource Persons employed
c) What is the process by which Village
Social Audit Facilitators are paid on
the completion of a social audit?
d) What is the process of submission of
the Social Audit Report once
prepared and read out in the Gram
Sabha
