Organisation :Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Department, Tamil Nadu
Facility : Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme:
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was conceptualized and enacted as an Act in the Parliament in September 2005 to give a statutory backing to the scheme.
Related : Rural Development & Panchayat Raj Department Self Sufficiency Scheme Tamil Nadu : www.statusin.in/6072.html
The objective of the Act is to enhance the livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
Salient Features of the Scheme
** Provision of 100 days of guaranteed wage employment for all registered households of the Village Panchayat.
** The Central Government bears 100% wage cost of unskilled manual labour and 75% of the material cost including wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers.
** No contractors or machineries are allowed.
** The wage and material component ratio has to be maintained at 60:40. In Tamil Nadu, 100% labour intensive works alone are taken up under MGNREGS.
** As per the guidelines, the shelf of projects for a Village should be recommended by the Grama Sabha and 50% of the works should be allotted to Village Panchayats for execution. In case of Tamil Nadu, only the Village Panchayats execute the works.
Permissible Works :
** The permissible work as per the GOI operational guidelines are as follows:
100 % Labour Intensive works :
** Water conservation and water harvesting including contour trenches, contour bunds, boulder checks, gabion structures, underground dykes, earthen dams, stop dams and springshed development;
** Drought proofing including afforestation and tree plantation;
** Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works;
** Provision of irrigation facility, dug out farm pond, horticulture, plantation, farm bunding and land development on land owned by households belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes or Below Poverty Line families or the beneficiaries of land reforms or the beneficiaries under the Indira Awaas Yojana of the Government of India or that of the small or marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008, or the beneficiaries under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007).
** Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of tanks;
** Land development;
** Flood control and protection works including drainage in water logged areas including deepening and repairing of flood channels;
** Rural connectivity to provide all weather access (Earthen Roads); and