5. Introduction
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is an Indian job guarantee
scheme, enacted by legislation on August 25, 2005.
The scheme provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult
members
The law was initially called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) but was renamed on 2
October 2009.
Scheme Provides at least 100 days of work at not less than Rs 60/day which varies by state.
36.7 Million rural Households have benefitted so far in 2012-13, while 49.8 million rural household benefitted
in 2011-12
launched on Feb 2,2006 from Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh ,that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'
6. Objectives
The scheme provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment
in every financial year to adult members.
To reduce rural urban migration.
Financial upgradation on Rural people.
Right utilization of MNREGA FUNDS.
Supplement wage employment in Rural areas.
7. Impact of MGNREGA
Reduction in migration.
Financial Inclusion increased.
Women participation increased and equal wages on par with men.
Reduction in hunger.
Relief from village money lenders.
Rural asset creation.
Participation of SCs and STs increased.
Increase in average wages and employment.
8. Wage Employment Programs
1980 1990 2000
• National Rural Employment
Programme (NREP) launched to
use unemployed and
underemployed workers to build
community assets
• Employment Assurance Scheme
(EAS) launched to provide
employment during the lean
agricultural season
• Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar
Yojana (SGRY)launched, merging
EAS and JGSY
• Rural Landless Employment
Guarantee (RLEG) launched to
provide 100 days of guaranteed
employment to 1 member from
each rural, landless household
• Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
(JGSY) launched; dedicated to
development of demand driven
rural Infrastructure
• National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)
launched to provide 100 days of
guaranteed employment to one
member from each rural household
• Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
launched, combining NREP and
RLEG
12. Implementation Status
The scheme was introduced in 200 districts during financial year
2006- 07 and 130 districts during the financial year 2007-08.
In April 2008 NREGA expanded to entire rural area of the country
covering 34 States and Union Territories, 614 Districts, 6,096 blocks
and 2.65 lakh Gram Panchayats.
The scheme covered 644 districts , 6,576 blocks and 7.78 lakh
villages in the financial year 2013-14.
13. tate : BIHAR District : SAMASTIPUR Block :
TAJPUR Panchayat : RAHIMABADa
As on 02-12-2018
I Job Card
Total No. of JobCards issued 1,338
Total No. of Workers 1,527
Total No. of Active Job Cards 474
Total No. of Active Workers 462
(i)SC worker against active
workers[%]
17.1
(ii)ST worker against active
workers[%]
0
II Progress FY 2018-2019 FY 2017-2018 FY 2016-2017 FY 2015-2016 FY 2014-2015
Approved Labour Budget 0 0 0 0 0
Persondays Generated so far 3,832 37,402 15,572 4,043 4,472
% of Total LB 0 0 0 0 0
% as per Proportionate LB 0
SC persondays % as of total
persondays
4.12 18.94 19.53 45.14 44.39
ST persondays % as of total
persondays
0 0 0 0 0
Women Persondays out of Total
(%)
62.06 37.31 29.15 11.8 26.7
Average days of employment
provided per Household
19.96 79.92 54.26 53.91 47.57
Average Wage rate per day per
person(Rs.)
177 177 177 177 168.14
Total No of HHs completed 100
Days of Wage Employment
0 52 58 0 13
Total Households Worked 192 468 287 75 94
Total Individuals Worked 193 494 315 76 96
Differently abled persons worked 1 1 0 0 0
III Works
Number of GPs with NIL exp 0 0 0 0 0
Total No. of Works Takenup
(New+Spill Over)
125 125 97 75 34
Number of Ongoing Works 121 124 81 68 31
Number of Completed Works 4 1 16 7 3
% of NRM Expenditure(Public +
Individual)
49.38 89.13 62.57 47.05 21.82
% of Category B Works 65.6 65.6 40.21 53.33 2.94
IV Financial Progress
Total Exp(Rs. in Lakhs.) 36.7 89.69 34.1 30.09 11.84
Wages(Rs. In Lakhs) 7.59 72.38 11.9 12.39 1.7
Material and skilled Wages(Rs. In
29.11 17.31 22.2 17.69 10.14
14. Types of work under MGNREGA
i .Water Conservation and water harvesting including contour trenches, contour
bunds, boulder checks, gabion structures, underground dykes, earthen dams,
stop dams and springshed development;
ii. Drought Proofing including plantation and afforestation;
iii. Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works;
iv. Provision of irrigation facility, dug out farm pond, horticulture, plantation,
farm bunding and land development;
v. Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of tanks;
15. vii. Flood control and protection works including drainage in water logged areas, deepening
and repairing of flood channels, chaur renovation, construction of storm water drains for
coastal protection;
xi. Livestock related works, such as, poultry shelter, goat shelter, construction of pucca floor,
urine tank and fodder trough for cattle, azolla as cattle-feed supplement; xiii. Works in coastal
areas, such as, fish drying yards, belt vegetation;
xiv. Rural drinking water related works, such as, soak pits, recharge pits;
xv. Rural sanitation related works, such as, individual household latrines, school toilet units,
anganwadi toilets, solid and liquid waste management;
xv(a) Construction of anganwadi centres.
16. LIMITATIONS
Registration problems in terms of caste discrimination.
Uniform distribution of job cards is a time consuming process and leads to dissatisfaction.
Only 19% of the 8.5 lakh differently able people registered for the scheme have got work
under NREGA.
Non-issuance of receipts to applicants.
Unavailability of necessary facilities at the work places.
Improper maintenance of attendance of the workers.
Payments of wages delayed.
Measurement of work done by the workers a major problem.
