nrega - of Planning Commission

Annexure – I.Methodological Note:During the finalization of study details, it was proposed to take up 50 districtsfrom among the first batch of 200 districts where the NREGA is underimplementation. A presentation was made to a committee chaired by Prof. Abhijit Senon 20-3-2007. The committee asked us to reduce the districts to 20 only.These 20 districts were selected on the basis of available data of person-daysgenerated and job cards issued. These districts were the blend of above and belowstate-average figures of the ratio of person-days generated and job cards issued. Onthe advise of the members present in the meeting (Mr. V.K.Bhatia, Adviser, PEO, andMr. H. N. Gupta, Sr. Consultant), more weightage is given to four states of easternregion which constitute major chunk of out-migration of labour force. In all, 20districts covering 16 states including 2 districts in North-East were finalized for thestudy in a separate meeting held with Mr. V.K. Bhatia, and Mr. H. N. Gupta. In caseof Western region, the four districts were irrespective of above or below averagefigures since the data on other districts is not available at that point of time. Regionwiselist of districts is given below:List of Districts:In every district, 6 gram panchayats (GPs) falling in two revenue blocks @ 3GPs from each block were chosen in consultation with the district and block officials.In case of selection of beneficiaries i.e., @ 50 beneficiaries from each GP, it wasdone by random selection as advised by Prof. Abhijit Sen in the meeting held on 20-3-2007.