National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Monthly Newsletter www.nird.org.in No. 230 July 2014 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014
Cover Story
NIRD & PR through its Rural Technology Park is playing a pivotal role in transferring low cost technologies on rural housing, agriculture and other fronts. It is also endeavouring to provide solutions to rural energy needs in the form of solar powered domestic lighting, street lighting and other tools and appliances particularly in villages and tribal hamlets. As part of village adoption initiative, the Institute is providing technologies for the all round development of the villages. NIRD & PR in partnership with ‘Thrive Solar Energy Private Limited’ has set up a Solar Raw Material and Equipment Production and Assembling unit in the campus. own production and assembling units assembling of solar accessories Laser cutting and plastic molding in their own regions so that the is now a woman with confidence. machines will be added to produce message of solar power as an Over the years she graduated into plastic accessories and other raw alternate sources of energy goes to a trainer and resource person and material required for the unit. The the people at grassroot level. The is the senior most in the unit entire unit is being run by Solar entrepreneurs can also generate helping youngsters in the job. employment to locals by setting up Powered 5 Kilo Watt Station which Under the leadership and the units. is catering to all energy needs of encouragement of Dr. M.V.Rao, the assembling unit. Besides The unit also caters to the orders from Director General, NIRD & PR, the producing and assembling for villages for domestic and street Solar Plant is contributing to making Solar Lights, Study Lights, lighting. The pocket and mini- finding solutions to the energy Mini Home Lighting, Street Lighting accendo solar lights are in great needs of the rural people. People and Pocket Accendos, the unit demand in villages where power cut going to sleep as early as six in trains rural youth coming from is rampant. the evening in powerless villages different parts of the country in is a thing of the past. The mini- these technologies. It also trains Chinamma, an illiterate woman solar lamp is transforming life entrepreneurs in setting up their trained at RTP in the art of styles of the people in rural areas.
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National Colloquium of SIRDs
Solar Energy for Villages - NIRD & PR Initiatives
National Colloquium of SIRDs
Strategies Towards Combating Dalit Marginalisation
PGDRDM Batch 6 Students Awarded Diplomas The National colloquium of State Institutes of Rural Management of Rural Drinking Water and Development for the year 2014-15 was held at NIRD & PR, Sanitation Programmes Hyderabad on 11 July, 2014. Heads and Faculty members of 22 SIRDs and State Link Officers of NIRD & PR have Promoting Good Governance through attended the Colloquium. Shri S M Vijayanand, Additional Panchayati Raj Institutions Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India inaugurated the programme. Training Modules on Social Audit Shri Vijayanand referred to the priorities in training in the Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation context of ongoing flagship programmes for rural Management development and panchayati raj. He highlighted the role which state level institutions have to play not only in catering to the training requirements of the target groups envisaged Effective Rural Credit Management for for SIRDs but more importantly for the promotion and Rural Bankers facilitation of capacity building of block and below level stakeholders. Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Micro-enterprises Referring to training programmes of SIRDs, Additional Secretary highlighted the need for training of technical Exposure Visit of Nepal Delegation to functionaries under MGNREGS. He observed that so far NIRD & PR training programmes under the Scheme were mainly for officials and elected representatives while capacity building Visit of Indian Ambassador to Yemen to of engineering and other technical staff did not get the needed NIRD & PR attention. He also touched upon the importance of local plan preparation under MGNREGS and the Government of India’s Village Adoption Scheme (NIRD & PR - proposal to have labour budget based plan in 2500 most Banker Model) backward blocks in the country during the current year. He called upon SIRDs to take up training on this theme as a Faculty Participation major activity in the next three months. He indicated that MoRD has approved a scheme on Social Audit under which Rural Development Statistics: 2012-13 resource persons will be provided at NIRD & PR, SIRDs and districts to facilitate social audit process. Progress Statistics of Some Rural He underlined the importance of preparation of HR profile of Development Programmes RD & PR personnel at different levels in the States as the information is useful for planning of training programmes. As to BNV guidelines, he expected the delegates to offer
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, India 3 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014 their suggestions which will help in SIRDs,Training under MGNREGA, followed by discussion on items of finalisation of the revised guidelines. Setting up of SRTs and DRTs, agenda and action points of the Capacity-building of Panchayati Raj Colloquium under the Chairmanship Shri Vijayanand hoped that the functionaries and elected of Shri Vijayanand, Additional presentations and discussions in the Secretary, MoRD. colloquium will help in strengthening representatives under RGPSA, capacity-building initiatives for rural Suggestions and Comments on BNV The programme was coordinated by development. The agenda of the Guidelines and report of the Dr. R.P. Achari, Associate Professor colloquium included: Training and Professor Alagh Committee. The and Dr. V.K. Reddy, Faculty of Research performance of SIRDs, delegates made presentations and RTD under the overall guidance of Central Scheme for Strengthening of shared experiences. These were Dr. M.V. Rao, Director General, NIRD & PR. Strategies Towards Combating Dalit Marginalisation
NIRD & PR organised a National Symposium on “Strategies Towards Combating Dalit Marginalisation” during 11-12 July, 2014. It was inaugurated by Shri S.M. Vijayanand, Additional Secretary, MoRD, Government of India. The Symposium was organised with following objectives: i. To focus on the persistence of forces and processes that continue to marginalise Dalits and to bring together and consolidate understanding of the strategies and development approaches for Dalits; D. Narasimha Reddy, National Theme - II : Caste-based ii. To deliberate the challenges, Fellow, ICSSR (CSD); Prof. Kancha Segregation and hurdles and dilemmas faced by Ilaiah, Professor, MANUU made their Atrocities Against the Dalits; contributions as Key Resource Dalits Persons. Eminent and noted activist iii. To bring together the knowledge Dr.Ruth Manorama, President, Theme - III : Political Rights, and experiences of scholars, National Alliance of Women, Political development administrators and Bangalore acted as Key Resource Representation and activists with a view to suggesting Person for an important theme titled Right to Quality appropriate strategies to “Gender Inequality and Education overcome the resistance towards Discrimination” and made a faster development of Dalits. presentation. Theme - IV : Gender Inequality & Discrimination Several noted and reputed Considering the importance and personalities such as Professor magnitude of the problems faced by Theme - V : Right to G. Haragopal, National Fellow, ICSSR the marginal sections, the following Employment & (TISS); Prof. K.P.Kannan, Chairman, themes/panels were identified for Entrepreneurship Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat presentations. Studies, Trivandrum; Professor The Symposium was coordinated by T.S. Papola, Honorary Professor, Theme - I : Enforcement of the faculty members and staff of Institute for Studies in Industrial Constitutional Rights Centre for Agrarian Studies and Development; Professor and Safeguards Disaster Mitigation (CAS & DM).
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PGDRDM Batch 6 Students Awarded Diplomas Diploma Awarding Ceremony of PGDRDM Batch-6, 2013-14 was held on July 17, 2014. Dr P K Mohanty, former Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh was the Chief Guest of the occasion. He distributed the Diplomas to 49 students including 5 international in-service students sponsored by AARDO and CIRDAP. The ceremony was presided over by Dr M.V. Rao, Director General and NIRD & PR and Chairman PGDRDM Institute for its contribution to the rural resource demands for rural Academic Committee who development sector particularly in development, students should have administered oath to students. building human capital in the form of a service desire for implementation rural development professionals. He of rural development programmes Three best performing students were said that this effort would definitely with community participation, he awarded with Gold, Silver and bridge the gap in urban-rural said. Dr. Rao mentioned that the Bronze Medals. Ms Hima Bindu was development demand for human Institute had equipped the students conferred with Gold Medal while Ms. resources. He also observed that with a spirit of openness, dialogue P.Shilpa and Mr. Kankipati Vivek were students should have empathy in and commitment for the awarded with Silver and Bronze understanding the needs of the empowerment of the community Medals, respectively. people across countryside alongside which would be very helpful in their their career growth. Addressing the Director General’s Medal for best career. gathering, Dr M V Rao congratulated international student was awarded to the students and said that the Dr. S M Ilyas, Programme Director, Mr Eli Yaonzekwe Kuadey from students, who had passed out earlier Centre for Postgraduate Studies Ghana- an International in-service were performing well and hoped for presented the objectives and the Student sponsored by AARDO. similar results from the current batch progress of the programme, While addressing the students students as well. As PGDRDM was internship and placement status of Dr P K Mohanty complimented the aimed at meeting the human the students of PGDRDM Batch-6. Management of Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Programmes An international training programme on ‘Management of Rural Drinking Water & Sanitation Programmes’ was conducted at NIRD & PR from 1 to 28 July 2014. The programme was sponsored by MoEA and was attended by 18 participants drawn from 11 countries viz. Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritius, Tunisia, Kazakhistan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Tajikistan, Nigeria, and Libya. Participants made a brief presentation of their country reports consisting of country profile, policies
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, India 5 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014 and programmes of rural and children, and with the elected respective countries. Observing that development in general and rural representatives of local governance for knowledge sharing meeting water supply and sanitation in system. They got to know the people face-to-face is just one of the particular. The programme provided decentralised institutional ways Dr. Rao said that technology an excellent learning platform for arrangements for providing water can facilitate learning wherever the cross-learning from various and sanitation services in rural areas participants are. He further said he countries, and sharing of problems in India. Towards the end of the was impressed by the feedback given and success stories from across programme participants had by the participants and that they countries. The themes of the training prepared and presented their back should carry this good-will message programme were handled by home action plans based on from NIRD & PR as well as from resource persons and faculty of NIRD the learning from the prorgramme. India. They shall be considered as & PR. As part of study visits the Dr M V Rao, DG, NIRD & PR in his informal ambassadors of the Institute participants visited water supply and veledictory address suggested that in their respective countries. sanitation systems in rural areas of the participants may create a social Karnataka and Tamil Nadu States. network group amongst themselves Dr SivaRam and Dr Gangi Reddy of They held interactions with including the NIRD & PR faculty, and Centre for Rural Infrastructure, NIRD government officials, school teachers continue learning from their & PR coordinated the programme. Promoting Good Governance through Panchayati Raj Institutions
A five-day training programme on “Promoting Good Governance through Panchayati Raj Institutions” was organised at NIRD & PR during 7-11 July, 2014. It was attended by 43 participants drawn from different States who included government officials from the district levels, elected representatives and chairpersons of different standing committees of Zilla Parishads.
The programme highlighted the principles and practices of good governance by enunciating issues on public accountability, participation of stakeholders and administrative transparency. The programme also appraisal and improvement of Gram Panchayat and discussed the covered other important issues on leadership skills also formed part of day-to-day challenges faced in the governance like review of rural the programme. functioning of the panchayats. The development programmes in India, visit also served as a platform to poverty alleviation and empowerment A field visit was organised to showcase women’s political through Panchayati Raj Institutions, Pochampally Gram Panchayat in the leadership in the rural setting. The the relevance and practice of social Nalgonda district to provide programme was coordinated by audit, right to information and participants an exposure to the Dr. Pratyusna Patnaik, Assistant transparency in local governance, working of PRIs. During the visit Professor and Dr. K. Jayalakshmi, and ongoing e-governance initiatives participants interacted with the Professor of Centre for Panchayati of different States. Participatory rural Sarpanch and other members of the Raj (CPR) of NIRD & PR.
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Training Modules on Social Audit
MGNREGA is a landmark legislation passed by the Parliament of India. Apart from providing every rural household the right to get 100 days of wage employment through the programme, the Act made it mandatory that work and expenditure under the programme be reviewed by the people through social audit.
The experience of social audit, however, varied significantly from State to State in terms of approach, coverage, frequency as well as quality and rigour. So Mahatma Gandhi National Rural a three-day Writers Workshop for Participants were divided into five Employment Guarantee Audit of developing training modules on groups and discussed different Scheme Rules were notified in Social Audit during 21 - 23 July 2014. themes of MGNREGS like June 2011 to bring a common The workshop was coordinated by planning process, works/ assets, base and uniformity for conduct of Dr. G. Rajanikanth, Associate workers and the payment of social audit in different States and Professor and Dr. C. Dheeraja, wages, role of ward/ gram sabhas Union Territories. To bring Assistant Professor from NIRD & and grievances and follow-up minimum common standards to PR and Ms Rakshita Swamy and actions with focus on social audit process, it was felt Shri Manas Ranjan from MoRD. transparency and accountability necessary that there should be Twenty four resource persons, mechanisms to be in- built. They commonly designed training well experienced with the process came up with reports on programmes for officials, of social audit participated in provisions of the Act / Guidelines, resource persons, coordinators the workshop. They included documents required for the and the volunteers engaged in Shri Shankar Singh from MKSS, conduct of social audit, process social audit. A first initiative on this Rajasthan, Ms. Ashwini Kulkarni of verification, hindrances faced, was taken to develop a training from Pragati Abhiyan, Nashik, typical issues and irregularities to manual on social audit to carry out Ms. Soumya Kidambi, SSAAT, be found, and reporting formats to training programmes. Thus, Hyderabad, Shri Karuna Muthiah, each theme. Members shared the MoRD felt a need to conduct the Social Audit Unit, Chennai, responsibility of writing different writers’ workshop on social audit. Shri Abhay Pandey, Social Audit Unit, chapters of the manual and Centre for Wage Employment and Madhya Pradesh, Shri Gurjeet Singh promised to extend all their Poverty Alleviation, NIRD & PR in from GVS, Ranchi, Shri Hitendra support in bringing out the final collaboration with MoRD organised Chowhan from UNNATI, Gujarat etc. training manual.
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Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Management
A 5-day training programme in Management of Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Programmes with a focus on IEC was held at the Institute. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, (GoI) is according top priority for Information, Education and Communication (IEC) for behavioural change in favour of sensible water use, and hygienic toilet habits amongst the rural masses. The programme aimed at training the district and State level officers involved in water and sanitation works on result-oriented use of IEC materials. 48 participants attended the programme who were drawn from 11 States. The programme designing posters and writing street street theatre in the school included classroom presentations plays which could be used as IEC premises where the villagers and and discussions on topics such as tools. As a part of field visit school children had assembled. status of rural water supply and participants were taken to Nomula They got the villagers and the sanitation in India, IEC tools and village which was awarded Nirmal children’s feedback that the street techniques, Behavioural change Grameen Purskar (NGP) for play is useful as IEC tool. cleanliness. The participants communication, Solid Waste Dr R Ramesh & Dr S N Rao of Management etc. conducted a pre-test of the IEC materials / tools they had prepared Centre for Rural Infrastructure The participants were provided during the training, and got feedback (CRI), NIRD & PR coordinated the with hands-on experience in from the villagers. They also played programme. Effective Rural Credit Management for Rural Bankers
The programme was conducted from The topics covered in the programme sector. Various strategies to manage 21 to 25 July 2014 at Rajiv Gandhi included Innovative ways for financing the rural credit portfolio and recovery State Institute of Panchayati Raj and micro-enterprises, Identification of of NPAs under agricultural credit in Community Development (RGSIPR appropriate micro-enterprises, the rural sector were also discussed. Marketing strategies for effective & CD), Nilokheri in Karnal district of credit management, Rehabilitation of Field trip to various SHG groups Haryana. It was attended by 25 bank sick micro-enterprises units and operating in the Beed Khajura village managers working in the rural other relevant topics on effective of district of Kurukshetra was a branches of Haryana Gramin Bank. credit management in the rural unique experience for all the bankers.
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The groups have not only changed their fortune but have cleared all the dues of the bank promptly thereby motivating the bankers to enhance their original limits. Subsequently, the visit to few flower growing units initiated by local farmers through women cluster was an eye opening scene which reflects the success of the strategy of alleviating poverty ridden rural people. Similarly, an income model-unit of women self-help groups producing mushrooms, goat-milk, fruits and vegetables, dairy products through buffalo rearing in scientific method was also found useful by the rural branches to initiate a major of the Centre for Rural Credit participants. breakthrough in further disbursement and Development Banking, NIRD & Participants in their feedback have of rural credit for micro-enterprises. PR and Mrs. Veena Shegal, a indicated that they were motivated The programme was coordinated by Senior Faculty Member of RGSIPR and excited to work in their respective Dr. B.K.Swain, Professor and Head & CD. Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Micro-enterprises
The training programme on Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Micro-enterprises was held at State Institute of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development (SIP & RD), Kalyani, West Bengal during 21-25 July 2014. Altogether 29 persons from different parts of the State as well as from different departments such as Government, faculty members of university, banks, and NGOs like Ramakrishna Mission etc., attended the programme. The objectives of the programme, inter alia, were to equip the participants with the knowledge of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of micro-enterprises and to share innovative experiences and
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, India 9 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014 strategies in managing the SHG guide others for setting up of micro- community were involved with bio- based micro-enterprises. The enterprises. Topics like capacity diverse farming under an programme was inaugurated by Shri building, PRA and Participatory organisation viz. Bio-diverse Suvendhu Ghosh, Additional Director Identification of Poor, social Farming (P) Ltd. As a part of the of SIP & RD. While delivering mobilisation, poverty issues, Company’s activities, all agro-waste inaugural address he highlighted the innovative project identification, materials are used as livestock feed, importance of micro-enterprises to monitoring and evaluation, marketing the excreta is used as organic address unemployment issue in rural aspects etc., were covered. Field manure and entire process is India in general and West Bengal in based cases on SHG projects managed by the villagers. particular as the State is riddled with focusing on problems and prospects severe unemployment. He observed The programme was well-received by were also shared with the the participants as reflected in their that such courses had great participants through film shows to importance in West Bengal. feedback. The programme was enlighten them about the reality. A conducted by Dr. Shankar The training programme was one-day field visit was organised to Chatterjee, Associate Professor designed in such a way that Tona village of South 24 Parganas (CPME), NIRD & PR and participants can implement projects district of West Bengal where local Smt Susmita Choudhury, Senior related to micro-enterprises and can villagers mostly belonging to minority Faculty of SIP & RD, Kalyani. Exposure Visit of Nepal Delegation to NIRD & PR
A Delegation from the Ministry of Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Government of Nepal visited NIRD & PR on an exposure visit to developmental institutions and projects from 6-10 Jul, 2014. The delegation consisted of eight members and headed by Shri Suresh Pradhan, Joint Secretary of the Ministry.
As part of the visits the delegation visited RSETI, ATI, TISS, Mulkanoor Cooperative Society etc., to learn about the best practices on RD and poverty They had the benefit of discussions initiatives for rural development in alleviation. The team also visited with the officials, field functionaries India. In particular, they have Rural Technology Park of and other stakeholders. They also had expressed that the learnings NIRDPR, AMR-APARD and ICM. an opportunity to learn about the gained from the visits will be They were briefed on the activities National Rural Livelihoods Mission useful in replicating the and operational and (NRLM) and its various components experiences and best practices in implementation aspects of the and activities. The study team in their Nepal. The study visit was various initiatives and feedback indicated that the visits were coordinated by Dr. R.P. Achari, programmes of the institutions. useful in getting to know the various Associate Professor (RTD).
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Visit of Indian Ambassador to Yemen to NIRD & PR
Shri Amrit Lugun, Indian Ambassador to Yemen visited NIRD & PR on 30-7-2014 as part of Bharat Darshan from 29 July - 1 August, 2014. He had interaction with Dr M V Rao, Director General, NIRD & PR along with Dr P SivaRam, P & H (CRI) and Project Director, RTP, Dr V Madhava Rao, P & H (CGARD) and Dr R P Achari, Associate Professor (RTD). The Director General briefed on the various initiatives of the Institute and referred to the training programmes offered for the benefit of professionals from developing countries. He has indicated NIRD & PR's readiness to share experience and expertise for rural development programmes specially to be documenting and disseminating officials of Yemen. Shri Amrit Lugun organised for officials of Government the same. He has requested NIRD & was happy to learn about the of Yemen on rural and agriculture PR to establish centres of Rural Institute’s activities and its development. He visited Rural Technology Park, Geomatic Cell in contribution for capacity building of Technology Park and was briefed on Yemen for the benefit of rural poor. development professionals. He has the low cost technologies to rural The visit was coordinated by requested the Institute for training poor and Institute’s efforts in Dr R.P. Achari, Associate Prof. (RTD). Village Adoption Scheme (NIRD & PR - Banker Model)
As part of Village Adoption Scheme, under NIRD & PR - Banker Model a Farmers’ Club was formed by Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank, Chinthakomma Dinne branch at Maddamadugu Thanda village in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh on 18 July, 2014. The main objective is to work for the integrated development of the village through community participation and involvement of Gram Panchayat.
The inaugural programme was attended by Mr. Mohammad Khan, Consultant on behalf of NIRD & PR
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, India 11 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014 who explained the various initiatives of Institute for the integrated development of the villages. Shri M. Rama Rao, IAS, Joint Collector, Shri Sampath Kumar Chary, Chairman Andhra Pragathi Grameen Bank, Shri Anil Kumar, PD, DRDA Kadapa, Shri M. Ganeshwar, Joint Director (Ag) and Shri Shiva Sankar Reddy, Regional Manager, APGB attended the programme and assured of full cooperation and support. On the occasion ten solar LED street lights granted by NIRD & PR were installed and inaugurated by the Chairman of APGB. The villagers while expressing their utmost assured to involve through the the village and switch over to organic happiness on the Institute's Initiatives Farmers’ Club for the development of farming. Faculty Participation
★ Dr. P Satish Chandra, Head (CIT) and Dr. R Murugesan, Associate Professor, (CESD) were deputed by the Institute as Resource Persons to organise the contact classes and end examinations for the Fifth Batch of PGD-SRD at Afghanistan Institute of Rural Development, Kabul, Afghanistan during June 23 - July 2, 2014.
Seventeen officials (including three women) from various departments/ The programme was coordinated by of Afghanistan. Dr. S M Ilyas, wings of Ministry of Rural Mr. Abdul Hasib Anwari, Adminstrative Director (CPGS) and Project Rehabilitation and Finance Manager, AIRD, Ministry Director, DEC of NIRD & PR Development (MRRD) were of Rural Rehabilitation coordinated the programme. enrolled for this course. and Development, Islamic Republic
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★ Dr.Sarumathy, Associate Professor (CHRD) attended a twelve-day programme on Contemporary Public Administration and Management at Galilee International Management Institute, Israel from June 18 to 30, 2014.
Rural Development Statistics: 2012-13 Progress Statistics of Some Rural Development Programmes
WAGE RATES UNDER MGNREGS
Table -1 presents the wage rates 2008-09 and on the other extreme rate did not witness any in respect of MGNREGS during Haryana fell with a corresponding significant increase (from 125 to the period 2008-09 to 2011-12 for figure of ` 141.02. However the ` 126 only). Further, across all the all States and Union Territories. percentage increase in the two spatial units, the ones that registered As will be seen from this Table, States (that registered extreme the highest percentage increase the modal wage rate in 2008-09 wage rates in 2008-09) was almost (of 55 points) are Arunachal Pradesh was ` 100 but the increase in same- around 33 per cent. Another and Karnataka. The increases were the wage rate in the latter years interesting observation that can be from ` 80 to ` 124 in the former was not uniform across the States/ made from this Table is that State while in the latter, it was from Union Territories. Out of 34 such Haryana’s wage rate could jump 100 to 155 during the period spatial units, Odisha registered from ` 179 to ` 191 - an increase ` ` the lowest wage rate of ` 90 in of 6.7 per cent, but Odisha’s wage 2008-09 to 2011-12.
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Table 1 : State-wise MGNREGS Wage Rates
(` Per day) S.No. State 2008-09 & 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 1 Assam 100.00 130.00 136 2 Andhra Pradesh 100.00 121.00 137 3 Arunachal Pradesh 80.00 Area-I (118.00) 124 80.00 Area-II (118.00) 4 Bihar 100.00 120.00 122 5 Gujarat 100.00 124.00 134 6 Haryana 141.02 179.00 191 7 Himachal Pradesh Non-scheduled Areas-100.00 Non-scheduled Areas-120.00 126 Scheduled Areas-125.00 Scheduled Areas-150.00 157 8 Jammu & Kashmir 100.00 121.00 131 9 Karnataka 100.00 125.00 155 10 Kerala 125.00 150.00 164 11 Madhya Pradesh 100.00 122.00 132 12 Maharashtra 100 127.00 145 13 Manipur 81.40 126.00 144 14 Meghalaya 100.00 117.00 128 15 Mizoram 110.00 129.00 136 16 Nagaland 100.00 118.00 124 17 Odisha 90.00 125.00 126 18 Punjab -- 153 166 18 (a) Hoshiarpur 100.00 124.00 -- 18 (b) Jalandhar 100.00 124.00 -- 18 (c) Nawanshar 100.00 124.00 -- 18 (d) Amritsar 105.00 130.00 -- 19 Rajasthan 100.00 119.00 133 20 Sikkim 100.00 118.00 124 21 Tamil Nadu 100.00 119.00 132 22 Tripura 100.00 118.00 124 23 Uttar Pradesh 100.00 120.00 125 24 West Bengal 100.00 130.00 136 25 Chhattisgarh 100.00 122.00 132 26 Jharkhand 99.00 120.00 122 27 Uttarakhand 100.00 120.00 125 28 Goa 110.00 138.00 158 29 Andaman & Nicobar Andaman District 130.00 170.00 178 Nicobar District 139.00 181.00 189 30 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 108.20 138.00 157 31 Daman & Diu 102.00 126.00 136 32 Lakshadweep 115.00 138.00 151 33 Puducherry 100.00 119.00 132 34 Chandigarh 140.00 174.00 189
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NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME (NSAP)
The NSAP has different schemes of 2.23 crore in 2012-13. The persons every year. The other two namely Indira Gandhi National Old coverage is exceedingly more schemes namely IGNWPS and Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), impressive under NFBS- it IGNDPS were introduced in 2009- Indira Gandhi National Widow progressed from just 0.85 lakh in 10 and in a three-year period, Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) , Indira 2002-03 to 29 lakh in 2012-13 and while the former could register an Gandhi National Disability Pension this results in a percentage increase of 1.29 per cent, the latter Scheme (IGNDPS) and National achievement of 34 points. The registered 1.06 per cent increase. Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS). Annapurna scheme also has made In absolute terms, the IGNPS could The coverage has gone up by 3.33 a mark in so far as its coverage improve its coverage from 32.1 lakh times in respect of IGNOAPS. is concerned - over a span of to 41.3 lakh while the other Started with a coverage of 67 lakh about 11 years, on an average it scheme could graduate from 7.00 in 2002-03 it has reached a mark was covering about 80 lakh lakh to 7.44 lakh (Table-2).
Table 2: NSAP - Physical and Financial Progress
Year Allocation Releases Expendi- % No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of ` (in ` (in ture utilisation Benefi- Benefi- Benefi- Benefi- Beneficia- crore) crore) reported ciaries ciaries ciaries ciaries ries under ` (in under under under under IGNDPS crore) NOAPS/ NFBS Anna- IGNWPS IGNOAPS purana
2002-03 680.00 657.09 594.06 90.4 6697509 85209 776173 - - 2003-04 679.87 602.26 655.97 108.9 6624000 209456 1057155 - - 2004-05 1189.87 1032.01 868.37 84.1 8079386 261981 820583 - - 2005-06 1190.00 1189.71 1033.89 86.9 8002598 276737 851654 - - 2006-07 2489.61 2489.61 1968.28 79.05 8708837 243972 871424 - - 2007-08 2891.48 2889.73 3123.08 108.0 11514026 334153 1051030 - - 2008-09 4500.00 4500.00 3961.51 88.0 15020640 426292 1011240 - - 2009-10 5200.00 5155.50 4914.88 95.3 16356058 342809 1015655 3213467 699680 2010-11 5162.00 5162.00 5352.36 103.7 17081556 335044 958419 3425390 729345 2011-12 6596.47 6596.47 6188.67 93.8 21384404 330240 778682 3628467 794249 2012-13 8447.30 5859.50 4855.77 82.9 22318295 2910109 824001 4130876 743806
INDIRA AWAAS YOJANA (IAY)
The data presented in Table-3 10 years, the Central releases shot share), a nearly four-fold increase relate to the period 2002-03 to up from ` 162853 lakh to ` 986478 is noticed during this period from 2011-12. (2012-13 was excluded as lakh, registering a five-fold ` 279496 lakh to ` 1292632 lakh. data were not available for full increase. Even in respect of During the entire period of ten year). During the period of about utilisation (including the State years, 2008-09 is an exception
National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, India 15 NIRD & PR Newsletter JULY 2014 where the utilisation (including the achievement of houses constructed/ highest in 2002-03 at 118 State share) fell short of even completed in a period of ten years for percentage points. In the other the Central share- the actual which the figures are presented, in years also, with an exception of figures being ` 879579 lakh as three years namely 2002-03, 2005- 2009-10, the achievement releases and ` 834834 lakh as 06 and 2008-09, the achievement percentage did not fall short of 90 utilisation. As regards the percentage exceeded the target set and it is per cent.
Table 3 : IAY - Financial and Physical Progress
(` in Lakh) Year Central Central Utilisation Target (No. Houses Percentage Allocation Release of Houses in Constructed / achievement Lakh) Completed in house (in Lakh) construction (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 2002-03 165640.00 162852.86 279496.46 13.14 15.49 118.0 2003-04 187050.00 187107.78 258009.69 14.84 13.61 91.7 2004-05 246067.00 288310.02 326208.64 15.62 15.21 97.4 2005-06 273240.00 273822.58 365409.05 14.41 15.52 107.7 2006-07 290753.00 290753.06 425342.45 15.33 14.98 97.7 2007-08 403270.00 388237.01 546454.30 21.27 19.92 93.7 2008-09 564577.00 879579.39 834834.33 21.27 21.34 100.3 2009-10 849470.00 863573.99 1329236.40 40.52 33.86 83.6 2010-11 1005370.00 1013945.40 1346572.75 29.08 27.15 93.4 2011-12 949120.00 986477.80 1292632.74 27.26 24.71 90.6 2012-13 1051320.00 565537.00 1346573.00 30.10 13.88 * - *: As on 31.1. 2013
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