Organisation :Rural Development Department , Himachal Pradesh
Facility : Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Home Page : http://rural.hp.gov.in/
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme :
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified by the Government of India on September, 2005 and was made effective w.e.f. 2nd February 2006.
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In the first phase, the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGS) was introduced in District Chamba and Sirmour on 2nd February, 2006. In second phase NREGS was started in District Kangra and Mandi w.e.f. 1-4-2007. Now in the third phase all the remaining 8 districts of the State have been covered under the scheme w.e.f. 1.4.2008.
SALIENT FEATURE :
The salient feature of the scheme is to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the State by providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
ELIGIBILITY :
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is open to all rural households in the areas notified by the Government of India. The entitlement of 100 days of guaranteed employment in a financial year is in terms of a household. This entitlement of 100 days per year can be shared within the household.
adult members of the household who registered can apply for work. To register, they have to :
** Be local residents “local“ implies residing within the gram panchayat.
** Be willing to do un-skilled manual work.
** Apply as a household at the local gram panchayat.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION AND ISSUANCE OF JOB CARDS
The application for registration can be given on plain paper or on the prescribed application format available at gram panchayat level or an oral request for registration can be made. The application should contain the names of those adult members of the household who are willing to do un-skilled manual work, and particulars such as age, sex and SC/ST status etc. After verification all particulars are entered in the registration register by the concerned Gram Panchayat. Every household is assigned a registration number. Job cards to every registered household are issued by the gram panchayat.
PERMISSIBLE WORKS
As per schedule 1 of the Act the focus of the scheme is on the following works in their order of priority :-
(i) Water Conservation and Water Harvesting works;
(ii)Drought proofing works (including aforestation and tree plantation)
(iii) Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works;
PAYMENT OF WAGES
** Every person working under the scheme is entitled to wages at the minimum wage fixed by the State Government.
** Equal wages are to be paid to both man and woman workers.
** Workers are entitled to being paid on weekly basis and in any case within a fortnight of the date on which work was done (NREGA section –