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MGNREGA:
PRIORITIES
AND
WAY FORWARD
1. UNIVERSAL ACCESS
 Assure Universal access to all rural poor
 Assure 100 days work for all SC/ST households in rural areas
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 Labour budgets to get real
2. OUTCOME ORIENTATION
From expenditure to Investment: land, water, trees
 Works should
» result in sustainable income (individual assets)
» support sustainable growth (community assets)
Outcomes to be quantified at the time of shelf
Measured at the end of the work.
Unproductive expenditure shall be an offence.
Suitable provisions to be incorporated in the
Schedule II of the Act.
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3. CAPTURE DEMAND WEEKLY
 Demand to be registered at least once a week by GRS
 Receipts to be made compulsory
 Demand capture to be real (not assumed)
 Preferably electronic
 Mobile application being readied
 GPs being authorised to buy phablets (tablets with GPS/SPRS)
 Non-capture will be an offence
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 Expected launch: 1st December
4. UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE
 Rules to be modified: 5 Non-negotiables : wage seekers shall
not be forced to run around offices filing applications seeking
UA.
1.Objectivity: based on electronic evidence in NREGASoft.
2.Automation: Generated automatically on the 30th day of each
month:
3.Responsibility: Approved or disapproved by Programme Officer
within 15 days from the last day of the previous month.
4.Accountability: any disapproval shall have reasons recorded Rejection of UA on incorrect reasons should call for action as per
provisions of the Act.
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5.No delay: If UA is not paid within 15 days from the date of its
approval/part approval, delay compensation allowance on the
UA shall be payable as per section 30 of Schedule II.
5.MINIMUM INSTITUTIONAL
ARCHITECTURE
Personnel
Rozgar Sahayak
Level
Norm
Number of persons
as per Norm
GP
One for every GP with at
least 500 active job cards
and at least 10000
persondays
1,50,000
Paid from the
supervision charges
of the estimate as
skilled worker
Paid from the
supervision charges
of the estimate
Paid from the
supervision charges
of the estimate
Mate (work site supervisor)
Work site
One for very worksite
Technical Assistant
Cluster
One for every 5 GPs or
2,500 job cards
Diploma Engineer
Block
One for every Block
Programme officer
Block
Full time, on deputation One for every block
6700
Computer operators
Block
2 per block computer centre
13400
• No payment without technical measurement
• 5% technical supervision charges on every estimate: Counted against material cost
• All technical staff to the work charged employees
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6. FAST FORWARD eFMS
 eFMS to be expedited: end Dec 2013
 All States to complete by 30th Nov:
 Verification of accounts on a drive mode by GRSs
 Authentication by the Banks
 Opening of postal/bank accounts for all active workers
 Verification and authentication of supplier accounts
 DSCs for all the authorised persons
 Train/orient Block level computer operators
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 MRD meetings Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati in October with UP,
Bihar, North East
7. DELAY COMPENSATION SYSTEM
 Delay beyond 15 days :
 From the closure of the muster roll
 to the deposit in the account
 Compensated by the State Govt
 To be recovered from functionaries /
agencies
 Split the processes – fix responsibility
 Implementation from October 2013
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8. NREGASoft
 Mobile interface to NREGASoft
 Data entry shall be at GP level: GSM/GPRS network
 Demand capture
 Work allocation
 E-Muster ID
 Attendance
 Aadhaar seeding
 GPs to buy the Phablets as per specifications
 Decentralisation of powers to State DBAs/ Districts/ POs
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 Revamp the reports – dynamic reports
9. QUALITY and CONVERGENCE
 Convergence to be made functional
 Focus on convergence of:
 NBA
 NRLM (discuss the draft)
 IWMP
 Afforestation
 Draft SoP on Quality issued:
 Periodic maintenance
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 Economic
 Productive
 Durable
 Draft SoP on maintenance of assets
10. ACTION PLAN FOR DBT (AEPS)
 Move to AEPS mode of disbursement by 1st Jan 14:
 Aadhaar biometric authentication
 Village level payments through BCs/DoP
 Action Plan:
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Launch targeted enrollment in all Blocks:(NREG/NSAP)miss none
a. State RD Depts to be Registrars
b. States to enroll agencies: One kit for every 10 GPs
c. Go with the pre-loaded list of beneficiaries:
d. Campaign mode of enrolment – 15th Oct – End Nov.
2. Seeding work to be done by GRSs on campaign mode (mobile app)
3. Meeting with Bankers: and DoP
a.
b.
c.
Adopt GPs for setting up a BC
Authenticate accounts
Seeding accounts in Bank database (NPCI mapper)
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