10.National Rural Employment Programme.pptx

Lecture notes

1. National Rural Employment Programme (NREP), Rural landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP), Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP), Command Area Development Programme (CADP), Food for Work Programme (FFW), Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY), Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS).

2. The National Rural Employment programme (NREP) was launched in October, 1980 became a regular Plan programme from April, 1981 and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) was introduced on August 15, 1983,

3. Objectives 1. Improving and expanding employment opportunities for the rural landless with a view to providing guarantee of employment to at least one member of every landless household up to 100 days in a year and 2. Creating durable assets for strengthening the infrastructure so as to meet the growing requirements of the rural economy

4. with cost sharing basis of 80:20 between the central and the State. Implemented through village panchayats , basically aimed at providing supplementary gainful employment to at least one member of rural poor families who seek unskilled employment for a minimum period of 50 to 100 days in a year. NREP and RLEGP were merged on April, 1, 1989 to form the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY)

5. Report of the Prof. S. R. Hashim Committee and discussion with the State Governments, it was decided to restructure and streamline Jawahar Rozgar Yojana. It was felt that the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana should be implemented only at the village level to create village infrastructure. JRY as Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) and was launched on April, 1999.

6. Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) The main objective of the EAS is to provide about 100 days of assured casual manual employment during National Rural Employment Programme (NREP), Rural landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP), Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP), Command Area Development Programme (CADP), Food for Work Programme (FFW), Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY), Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS), the lean agricultural season, at statutory minimum wages to all persons above the age of 18 years and below 60 years who need and seek employment on economically productive and labour intensive social and community works.

7. Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) (additional wage employment Scheme ) Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) (rural infrastructure development Scheme) The Ministry of Rural Development , merged the launched the new Scheme as Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana(SGRY) w.e.f 25th September, 2001

8. NREGA was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on 2 October 2009 and is Implemented throughout the country in the name of 100 Days employment programme in common parlance.

9. Provisions under NREGA Adult members of a rural household, willing to do unskilled manual work, are required to make registration in writing or orally to the local Gram Panchayat. The Gram Panchayat will issue a Job Card. The Job Card should be issued within 15 days of application. Work should be provided within 5 km radius of the village. In case work is provided beyond 5 km, extra wages of 10% are payable to meet additional transportation and living expenses.

10. wages has to be done on weekly basis and not beyond a fortnight in any case. At least one-third beneficiaries shall be women who have registered and requested work under the scheme. Work site facilities such as drinking water, shade have to be provided The project for a village will be recommended by the gram sabha and approved by the zilla panchayat .

11. At least 50% of works will be allotted to Gram Panchayats for execution Permissible works predominantly include water and soil conservation, afforestation and land development works No contractors and machinery is allowed The Central Govt . bears the 100 percent wage cost of unskilled manual labour . Social Audit has to be done by the Gram Sabha

12. Drought Prone Areas Programme : 1970-71

13. DPAP is a centrally shared programme launched in 1973-74 to tackle the special problems faced by those areas which are prone to and are constantly affected by severe drought conditions.

14. The objectives To minimize the adverse effects of drought on the production of crops and livestock and productivity of land, water and human resources thereby ultimately leading to ‘ drought proofing ’ of the affected areas,

15. Command Area Development Programme (CADP)

16. The Command Area Development Programme CADP is implemented by the Agricultural Engineering Department basically to ensure improved agricultural activities with efficient water management to enable easy and convenient distribution of water below the sluices to the farm holding in the river commands. This programme is a centrally sponsored programme cost shared equally on 50:50 basis

17. The Agricultural Engineering Department has been implementing the programme in Cauvery Command Lower Bhavani Project , Parambikulam Aliyar Project, Amaravathy Reservoir Project , Kodaiyar Chittar Pattanamkal Project, Cumbum Valley Project , Periyar Vaigai Project , Sathanur Reservoir Project and Tambiraparani River Basin Project.

18. During the Ninth Five Year Plan period, the Government of India approved three new projects namely Krishnagiri Reservoir Project, Thoppaiyar Project and Palar Porandalar Project .

19. Food for Work Programe (FFW)

20. The Program was introduced in 1977-78 The Program was for manual unskilled labor implemented with the assistance of the Central Government by supplying free food grains. done by the Planning Commission in consultation with the Ministry of Rural Development along with State Governments and initiated the task with 150 most backward districts in the country.

21. In 2006 the Food for Work Programme got merged with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Objectives The primary objective was to save the lives of the poor by giving them food grains