Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Organization : Government of Haryana
Facility : Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

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Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme :

This scheme may be called the Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2007.

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Definitions :
In this scheme unless the content otherwise requires, –
(a) “Act” means the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (Act 42 of 2005) ;
(b) “Additional District Programme Coordinator” means the Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive officer of the District Rural Development Agency ;
(c) “Central Rules” means the rules framed by the Central Government under the Act ;
(d) “ Panchayat Act” means the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994(Act 11 of 1994);
(e) “section” means the section of the Act;
(f) “State Programme Coordinator” means the Officer of the State Government in the Rural Development Department, not below the rank of Joint Secretary, so designated;
(g) “State Rules” means the rules framed by the State Government under the Act;
(h) “Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samiti, Gram Panchayat, Gram Sabha” shall have the same meaning as defined in the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994(Act 11 of 1994);
(i) words and expressions used herein but not defined in this scheme, shall have the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act.

Districts where Programme will be implemented :
The scheme shall come into force and shall be implemented in the districts of Mahendergarh and Sirsa which have been notified by the Government of India and to any other district to be notified by the Government of India subsequently.

Objectives :
The scheme shall have the following objectives:-
9a) Primary:-
The primary objective of the scheme is to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security to the households in rural areas of the notified areas of Haryana by providing round the year employment with minimum guarantee of one hundred days of wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Secondary:
The secondary objective is the creation of durable community, social and economic assets and infrastructural development in rural areas.

Nodal Department of state :
At the State level, Rural Development Department of the State Government shall be the Nodal agency for implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Funding Pattern :
The scheme shall be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on cost sharing basis between the Centre and the State Governments in the following manner
(1) The entire cost of wages of unskilled manual workers, 75% of the cost of material and wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers, administrative expenses including salary and allowances of the Block Programme Officer and his supporting staff, work site facilities shall be borne by the Government of India.

(2) The State Government shall bear 25% of the cost of material and wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers, unemployment allowance payable under the Scheme and the state level administrative expenses, if any.

Target Group :

(1) The scheme shall be open to all rural households who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual and unskilled work in and around his/her village/habitation.
(2) As far as possible, employment shall be provided within a radius of five kilometers of the village where the applicant resides at the time of applying.
(3) A new work under the scheme shall be commenced only if :-
(a) atleast fifty labourers become available for such work; and
(b) the labourers can not be absorbed in the ongoing works; provided that this condition shall not be applicable for new works, as determined by the State Government, in hilly areas and in respect of afforestation.

(4) In case, the employment is provided outside such radius, it must be provided within the block and the labourers shall be paid 10% of the wage rate as extra wages to meet additional transportation and living expenses.

(5) A period of employment shall ordinarily be at least fourteen days continuously with not more than six days in a week.
(6) Priority shall be given to works where at least one-third of wage seekers shall be women who have registered and requested for work.

(7) All those persons desirous of taking up unskilled manual work my submit their applications to the Gram Panchayat in the jurisdiction of which they reside for registration of their household for issuance of a job card.[Annexure-(V)]

(8) The Gram Panchayat shall register the household after making such verification as it deems fit and issue a job card containing such details of adult members of the household. The job card remains valid for a period of five years. This may be renewed or cancelled on the request of the applicant in writing. All registered persons are entitled to apply for the unskilled manual work and the Scheme shall be applicable for employment for as many days as each applicant household may request in a financial year.

(9) The Gram Panchayat or Block Programme Officer shall within a period of fifteen days of receipt of application provide unskilled manual work to the applicant household. [Annexure-(VI)]

(10) If the Gram Panchayat is satisfied at any time that a person has registered with it by furnishing false information, it may request the Block Programme Officer to direct his name to be struck off from the Employment Register.