Hand Book for Gaon Burahs and Panchayati Raj Leader

14E. IMPLEMENTATION OF WAGE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMEOne of the major problems in our rural areas is the crisis of regular wageemployment. Keeping in view this problem Govt. is launching severalprogrammes time to time to provide wage employment opportunities to therural people in their own area. Presently, SGRY (Sampoorna Gramin RozgarYojana) is being implemented in all the DRDAs of the country for this purpose.This programme was launched w.e.f. 25 th September’2001 where the wageemployment programme like EAS and JGSY were merged together. The mainobjective of this programme is to provide wage employment and food securityto the rural people and to create durable community assets for infrastructuraldevelopment. At the same time Govt. also decided to empower thePanchayats for implementation of the programme in a fruitful manner. Hence,policies has been framed to implement the programme exclusively through thePanchayat Raj institutions. For this purpose Panchayats have the power toselect and implement the schemes which are found extremely necessary forthe Panchayats in particular the fund under SGRY is made available for thethree tiers Panchayati Raj institutions i.e. at village level the Gram Panchayator Gram Sabha, In intermediate level the Anchal Samities and at District levelthe Zilla Parishad. On receipt of allocation from Govt. the 50 % portion of thefund is released equally to all the Gram Panchayats, 30 % portion of the fundto the Anchal Samities on the basis of the population and 20 % portion of thefund is released to the Zilla Parishad. Since the Panchayati Raj institutions ofour state are not have the infrastructure for financial management hence, thefund meant for Gram Panchayats and Anchal Samities are handled by theBlocks and the funds meant for the Zilla Parishad are handling by DRDA itselfon behalf of the Gram Panchayats, Anchal Samities and Zilla Parishadrespectively.F. HARIYALIFor rejuvenation of natural resources like land and water in rural area as wellas an approach in empowering rural communities economically and sociallythe new initiative Hariyali launched by the Prime Minister of India on 27 thJanuary, 2003.In view of participation of Panchayat Raj Institution in all the area developmentprogrammes like Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP),Drought Prone Area Programme (DOAP) and Desert DevelopmentProgramme the Guidelines for watershed. Developments were adopted w.e.f.1.4.1995 and subsequently revised in August 2001. To simplify theprocedures further and effective involvement of Panchayati Raj Institution,Hariyali was adopted.The objectives of projects under Hariyali are:-1. Harvesting every drop of rainwater for purpose of irrigation, plantationsincluding horticulture and floriculture, pasture development, fisheries etc.to create sustainable sources of income for the village community aswell as for drinking water supplies.