National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is primarily a programme aimed at creating public assets that would be useful for the society at large. When NREGA was created, it relaxed this principle by allowing projects in private lands of selected marginalised communities including SCs and STs. The Minister for Rural Development is now trying to extend this by permitting works in private lands owned by small and marginal farmers who are not SCs and STs.About NREGA
The implementation of NREGA has been uneven across the country. In some areas, the Act has begun to demonstrate its potential. However, in most of the country the basic prerequisites of a meaningful legal entitlement are still to be put in place. The first priority of the government must be to ensure that the basic framework is in place across the country, and that citizens in all parts of rural India can exercise their right to work on demand, minimum wages, timely payment, etc. Short of that, it is meaningless and distracting to talk of “NREGA 2”.
The first requirement of the NREGA is to provide work on demand, or, failing that, to pay the unemployment allowance. In practice, this rarely happens – works are opened on a top-down basis as in traditional employment schemes. If the principle of work on demand could be operationalised by ensuring that the unemployment allowance is paid when work is not provided, the NREGA could be established in all parts of the country.There have been massive delays in wage payments in recent months, causing immense hardship to NREGA workers. The timing of wage payments needs to be tracked by the MIS, and procedures should be laid down for compensation to be automatically paid (under Schedule II, Section 30 of NREGA) when wages are paid later than the stipulated limit of 15 days.
The above said was observed that it was not followed in Kapadvanj area in Nadiad in Gujarat. To give justice to the needy people, priests of Don Bosco Fr. Mayank and Fr. Issac came along with the kapadvanj people to give written application to the collector of Nadiad. Please click to view the video for the same
-Courtesy : Details of NREGA by Association For India's Development.
-Photoes and video by BBN
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Dear Vijay,
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Beacuse of this news I have come to know that there is an ACT which we have to understand and tell others also to know it.
ReplyDeleteVery informative news.
Thank you for sending me and thank you Fr. Mayank and Fr. Issac