With an objective to take India’s national rural employment guarantee act to a new level, Ministry of Rural Development has announced the government’s plan to roll out NREGA II. This version of the project is expected to be more efficient since it eliminates its main shortcomings and deficiencies.
New Delhi: Seeking to build on the strengths of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) while, at the same time, eliminating its main deficiencies and shortcomings, the rural development ministry is planning to take UPA government’s flagship project to a new level.
- NREGA workers/ Photo credit: EDAA
A three-day-long workshop of the coordination group attached to the ministry, as also other principal stakeholders, gets underway at the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Rural Development from Monday.
On the discussion table will be the reports prepared by the six working groups which had been set up by the ministry in March this year to study various aspects affecting the execution of the Manmohan Singh government’s showpiece rural regeneration project.
The reports, ministry sources pointed out, will form the basis of the moves to take the scheme to a higher plane. “We’re gearing up to roll out MGNREGA-II,” a senior official of the ministry pointed out.
Each of the six working groups were tasked to study a separate and distinctive aspect. While the group on planning and execution was headed by Central Employment Guarantee Council member Ranga Rao, that on wages was chaired by NAC member Jean Dreze.
Another prominent civil society activist, Aruna Roy, who’s also a member of the NAC, was anointed the chairperson of the working group on transparency and accountability while CEGC member Ashwani Kumar was asked to lead the group on capacity-building. Former union minister Renuka Choudhari headed the panel on specific needs of specific category of workers, and K S Gopal, a non-official member of the CEGC, was named the chairman of the group on works to be taken up on individual land.
While the reports of the six working groups would form the main platform for discussions at the three-day-long brainstorming session, it was felt that the three main issues that needed to be addressed included strengthening implementation mechanism by greater transparency and accountability, improving the project’s planning and convergence with other schemes to make it more fruitful and productive.
“Implementation issues and policy correctives — these are the main issues to be looked into,” remarked the senior rural development ministry official.
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