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ge rises gradually in the north east of the district and merges with the
Indo-gangetic plains in the south. It is elevaled at 1030 ft. above sea
level.
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was enacted during 2005 in which 200
District in the country were brought under the purview of NREGA scheme. The
application of Act has been further extended to 130 more districts of the
country and Jammu district of Jammu division has also been included within
the ambit of the Act / Scheme during 2007-08.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims to enhance the livelihood
security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at
least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment to every household where adult
members volunteer to do unskilled manual labour. The scheme envisages demand
based time bound guaranteed employment, un-employment allowances, humane and
equitable conditions of work, timely payment of wages etc.
The scheme at the village level shall be implemented by the Halqa Panchayat.
The Gram Sabha shall recommend the works to be taken up, monitor execution
of works and conduct Social Audit. The responsibility of Panchayat shall be
to register labourers, issue Job Cards, receive demand of work, allot
employment opportunities .
Al Block level the Programme Officer (BDO) will be exclusively responsible
for implementing the scheme, consolidating plans, monitor executions of
works, sanction un-employment allowance.
At District level the Programme Coordinator (Assistant Commissioner
Development ) will be responsible for preparation of Labour Budget and
Monitoring of the scheme.
The following type of works can be taken up under the scheme:-
1. Water conservation and water Harvesting.
2. Drought proofing
3. Irrigation canals
4. Provision of irrigation facilities to land owners by SC & ST
5. Renovation of Traditional Water Bodies
6. Land Development
7. Flood Control and Protection works
8. Rural connectivity
9. Any other work to be notified by Central Government.
The scheme shall be implemented on cost sharing basis between Central and
State Govt. The total cost of un-skilled labour will be met by Govt of
India. The cost of material and wages of semi skilled / skilled labourers
will be shared on 75 : 25 basis by Government of India and State Govt.
The Scheme is being implemented in all the 11 Blocks of the pre-delimitation
district Jammu . A series of steps have been initiated in a systematic
manner to ensure the successful implementation of NREGA in district Jammu,
which are as follows:-.
1) The Secretary to Government Rural Development Department, in a meeting of
officers of Rural Development Department on 05-04-2007 issued instructions /
directions to start this scheme as per the guidelines.
2) One day training programme on 11-04-2007 at Vigiyan Bhawan New Delhi was
held which was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Rural Development . In
this programme all the District Programme Coordinators of 113 districts of
the country participated. Assistant Commissioner Development Jammu (District
Programme Coordinator) and Executive Engineer, REW, Jammu also attended this
training cum orientation programme.
3) One day training cum orientation programme was organized at Secretariat
Jammu on 30-04-2007 in which, Hon’ble MLAs and Officers of district Jammu
participated. Hon'ble Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj J&K
inaugurated this training programme.
4) One day training camp was also held at Abhinav Theatre Jammu on
05-05-2007 in which more than 900 officials/non-officials including hon’ble
MLAs, the Ex-Sarpanches / Panches, NGOs, Officers and grassroot level
workers of the department participated. Hon'ble Minister for Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj inaugurated this one day training camp.
Secretary to Government Rural Development Department and the Director Rural
Development Jammu gave a detailed account of the scheme.
5) Two days training-cum-orientation course on NREGA w.e.f 14-05-2007 to
15-05-2007 organized by IMPA was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Minister for
Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in which the Assistant Commissioner
Development Jammu (District Programme Coordinator), Executive Engineer, REW,
Jammu, Block Development Officers of district Jammu, AEEs & AE of the
district participated.
6) One day Block level training cum awareness programme for all the Ex-Sarpanches,
Panches, JEs, VLWs, MPWs, Panchayat Inspector, Planning officials, CIC
Operators and work supervisor was organized at each Block of this district
from 18-05-2007 to 05-06-2007. The number of participant were 250 to 600 in
each Block level training camp.
7) After Block level training programme, panchayat level / village level
training cum awareness programme has also been organized by Programme
officers ie. Block Development Officers in each Panchayat / village of the
Block in which all the ex-sarpanches / panches, user groups, NGOs, SHGs and
local people participated. In each Panchayat 100-200 people participated.
8) Three days orientation Programme at RRETC R.S.Pura in 9 batches has also
been concluded. The training programme started on 16-07-2007 and concluded
on 17-08-2007 was participated by 416 officials comprising of JEs,VLWs,MPWs
and work supervisors.
9) After the training programme, registration of Job Seekers has been
started; the field staff has also prepared the shelf of project to be taken
up under NREGA. So far 39288 job seekers have been identified in this
district.The shelf of project have also been prepared for each Halqa
Panchayat by convening Dehi Majlis at Panchayat level . So far 2577 projects
have been identified.The Annual Action Plan amounting to Rs. 4864.95 Lacs
has also been prepared.
NREGA is renamed as Mahatma Gandhi NREGA
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)
The Act guarantees 100 days of assured employment in a year for the
persons of a household who got themselves registered with the
Department. The scheme is being implemented on 90:10
(Centre:State) sharing basis.
Under
this scheme, main thrust is given to the Soil and Water
Conservation, Soil Erosion, Flood Protection work,
Plantation, Land leveling and communication
etc. including providing 100 days employment to the job seekers
registered at the Panchayat/block level in their respective areas.
The total
availability
under NREGA
for the year 2009-10 was Rs
14588.90 lacs (
Including State and Centre Share ) out of which Rs
13793.607 lacs stand utilized ending March,
2010 and 89.44 lacs mandays generated ending 3/2010.
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