With our HARIT PRAYAS project we are able to generate positive impact on better implementation of MGNREGA in Bundelkhand region in last one year (Jan-Dec 2011). It also covers the work under Bundelkhand package. The key strategy in the form of raising CBOs and strengthening linkages with PRI has strengthen HARIT PRAYAS to have impact on MGNNREGA implementation.
The MGNREGA is a radical step that is expected to significantly reduce rural poverty and hunger. It guarantees one hundred days of employment at a certain minimum wage as a matter of right rather than as a great privilege. For those who live on the margin of subsistence, it makes dramatic difference by providing the right to live with dignity by seeking work through a due process. It also provides an opportunity to create useful assets and regenerate degraded ecological resources to enhance livelihood security.
One of the best ways to obtain high returns from manual labour is to invest such efforts to increase the land productivity and improve ecological services, which in the long-term would enhance the livelihood and food security situation.
Enhancing the natural resources is the critical element for promoting sustainable livelihoods in the poorly endowed arid/semi-arid regions. The field level experiences from arid/semi-arid tracts in the country reinforce the view that ecological restoration is the key to livelihood improvement in these regions. The HARIT PRAYAS experience has shown that a individual Household based planning approach – a pre-requisite to ensure and secure the right for work.
Job cards & demand for work…
The result shows that 100% of target households have the job cards and all the job cards are in their own custody. Whereas incase of demand for work we could infer from the graph that 546 households have given written application for demanding job under MGNREGA ( according to baseline data it was earlier ZERO) and all the applicants have received the job.
HARIT PRAYAS team promotes the proper way of demanding job i.e. through written application; as in most of the Panchyats sarpanch/sachiv prefers no written application, because if some gives written application and concerned Panchayat is not able to provide job the the particular individual in 15 days then the concerned Panchayat has to give unemployment allowance which hardly any Panchayat prefers. Also written application for job under MGNREGA gives guarantee for the job/unemployment allowance as well as creates pressure on Panchayat to provide the job.
Full wage payment…
In Bundelkhand region full wages are in UP (120 INR per day) & in MP (122 INR per day). HARIT PRAYAS team with 18 training programmes on MGNREGA (including 2 at district level and rest at village level) is able to secure 407 target community members to receive full wages for their job done under MGNREGA. It is also worth to notice that with HARIT PRAYAS its not we are making government system to work properly, we are enabling people to make system work properly and also making people to involve properly, as in many cases community do not do proper prescribed measured work under MGNREGA and ask for full wages! How it is possible to pay full wages without full work?
Average working days…
Baseline report of HARIT PRAYAS states that average working days under MGNREGA is 45 days in a year and NREGA website states ( on paper) average working days in the region is 75 days (2010) per household[1] including other Bundelkhand regions[2] also. With effort of HARIT PRAYAS project team at 3 districts we are able to achieve average 55 working days per households under MGNREGA and it is ground base data. Considering the situation and high political engagement and Uttar Pradesh government under MGNREGA scam, even in near future for the HARIT PRAYAS team especially for Jhansi
[1] www.samprag.org/downloads/mnrega/mgnrega_lucknow_meet.pdf
[2] The region is now divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion lying in the latter.
The major towns are Jhansi
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