How Many Days MGNREGA Provides Employment

Introduction

Rural households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work will receive at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment annually under MGNREGA.

The government of India launched the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGA) in all Gram Panchayats of Mahendergarh and Sirsa on 2nd February 2006, which was also extended to Ambala and Mewat on 1st April 2007.

In 2006, MGNREGA was launched in Uttar Pradesh. The Indian Parliament passed NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.) in August 2005, which entered into force on February 2, 2006. On October 2, 2009, the NREGA was renamed MGNREGA.

Objective of MGNREGA

The objective of MGNREGA can be summarized as follows:

• To enhance the livelihood security of rural households.

• To provide 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household that seeks it.

• To create durable assets such as roads, canals, ponds, wells and other productive infrastructure.

• To expand the livelihood opportunities in rural areas.

• To reduce rural-urban migration.

• To reduce rural poverty.

• To provide employment to unskilled manual labor.

• To promote gender equity and empower women.

• To create a sense of self-esteem, dignity and confidence among rural people.

• To improve the standard of living and social security of rural households.

Goals of MGNREGA

• Social protection for the most vulnerable people in rural India by Providing wage employment opportunities.

• Promote livelihood security of the rural poor by generating wage employment possibilities in works leading to the creation of durable assets.

• Empowerment of socially excluded members, particularly women, members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, through the implementation of rights-based legislation.

• Bolster Panchayati Raj institutions to deepen democracy at the local level.

Procedure to Register for Employment

The procedure to register for employment under MGNREGA can be summarized as follows:

• Locate the nearest MGNREGA office or Common Service Centre (CSC) in your village or nearest town.

• Obtain an application form for MGNREGA employment and fill in the required details.

• Submit the filled application form along with necessary supporting documents such as identity proof, address proof, etc.

• Provide your bank account details to receive payment of wages.

• The MGNREGA office will then process your application and verify the details provided.

• If your application is approved, you will receive an approval letter or an SMS to your registered mobile number.

• You can then approach the nearest MGNREGA worksite and register for work.

• The work will be allotted based on availability and the demand for work.

• Once the work is allotted, you can start working and receive wages for the number of days you have worked.

• The wages will be credited directly to your bank account.

Work Guidelines to be Considered While Completing MGNREGS Works

1. Only projects that increase the livelihood resources of the rural poor and create enduring assets may be undertaken.

2. According to Paragraph 4(2) of Schedule I, each Gram Panchayat shall decide the priority of the works at sessions of the Gram Sabha while taking into account the potential of the local region, its needs, and local resources.

3. The 60:40 wage and material cost ratio should be maintained at the GP level for all projects that GP will undertake and at the Block/Intermediate Panchayat level for projects that will be conducted by agencies other than GP.

4. As far as practical, works undertaken by the programme implementation agency shall be conducted by employing manual labour, and no labour-displacing devices shall be used (Para 22, Schedule I) (Para 22, Schedule I).

Types of Works are Carried Up Under MGNREGS

Category A: Public Works Relating to Natural Resources Management(NRM)

1. Water conservation and water harvesting structures to augment and improve groundwater like subterranean dykes, earthen dams, stop dams, and check dams with special attention on recharging groundwater, including drinking water sources;

2. Watershed management projects that result in a thorough treatment of a watershed, such as contour trenches, contour bunds, terracing, boulder checks, spring shed development, and gabion structures,

3. Micro and minor irrigation works include the development, rehabilitation and maintenance of irrigation canals and drains

4. Afforestation, tree plantation and horticulture in common and forest areas, road margins, canal bunds, tank foreshores and coastal belts duly affording the right to usufruct to the households included in Paragraph 5.

Category B: Individual Assets for Vulnerable Sections

1. Improving productivity of lands of families indicated in Paragraph5 by land development and by providing sufficient infrastructure for irrigation comprising drilled wells, farm ponds and other water harvesting structures;

2. Development of fallow or wastelands of families listed in Paragraph 5 of Schedule I to bring it under cultivation; CHAPTER-7,

3. Unskilled wage component in the building of houses sanctioned under the Indira Awaas Yojana or other State or Central Government Schemes,

4. They are creating infrastructure for developing fisheries, such as fish drying yards and storage facilities, and promoting fisheries in seasonal water bodies on public land.

Category C: Common Infrastructure for NRLM Compliant

1. Works for boosting agricultural production by constructing durable infrastructure required for bio-fertilisers and post-harvest facilities, including pucca storage facilities for agricultural produce; and

2. Common worksheds for livelihood activities of self-help organisations.

Category D: Rural Infrastructure

1. Rural sanitation-related works, such as individual household latrines, school toilet units, and Anganwadi toilets either independently or in convergence with programmes of other Government Departments to achieve open defecation free status. and solid and liquid waste management as per stipulated norms;

2. Works for enhancing disaster readiness, repairing roads, and restoring other crucial public infrastructure, such as flood protection and control, drainage for flooded areas, deepening and improving flood channels, chaur refurbishment, and stormwater drain construction for coastal protection,

3. production of construction materials necessary for Act-mandated construction projects,

4. Construction of Food Grain Storage Structures for executing the stipulations of The National Food Security Act 2013.