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(k) Wage payments are made through Bank accounts. (l) Both the GPs visited were having Gram Rojgar Sahayaks B) Negative Aspects (a) There was no system of holding Gram Sabha where selection and approval of works was followed. The BDO and Sarpanch decided the activities to be taken up. (b)Social tension was noticed at high level. There was clear divide between haves and have-nots. The Sarpanch has been the balancing factor between the two who commands respect, and affection from both sides since his sincere efforts have been benefitting both the sections. (c) All MGNREGA activities are Sarpanch centric. If the Sarpanch is good he is able to present a satisfactory picture like the Kaluana GP of Dabwali block where locals and the workers are satisfied and happy but if the Sarpanch is not good than nothing is taking shape like that is happening in Gobindpura GP of Rania block where Shri Jarnail Singh(Sarpanch) could not even issue the jobcards to the wage seeking households where entire worker community registered their dissatisfaction over the manner in which Sarpanch and the BDO was negatively handling the issue. The four jobcards viz. Govind Ram(No.31067), Shimli Bai(No.31012), Meera Devi(No.31013) and Maya Devi(No. 31067) got employment ranging 24 days to 41 days in two years during 2006-07 and 2007- 08. But no employment was provided during 2008-09 and 2009-10 as per entries made in these jobcards despite raising demand by workers which is a serious matter. It was also informed by some of the jobseekers in Govindpura GP that the Sarpanch is reluctant to discharge his legal commitment that once the workers starts getting wage employment and exercise their rights under MGNREGA, there would be dearth of workers in the fields of local elites. Such apprehensions would only increase social tensions on the one hand if left unattended for long and defeats the very objectives of MGNREGA on the other. (d)Lack of motivation for MGNREGA among the officials was noticed. They are not even aware of the basic provisions of the Act which is rendering poor jobseekers at their mercy. (e) No records like job cards, muster rolls could be seen at the worksite nor the Citizen Information Boards were found at any of the four worksites visited in Kaluana. The other records prescribed to be kept at the GP level especially the prescribed registers and the muster rolls were also not shown whereby the payment or other details could be cross-verified. (f) Nowhere worksite facilities were noticed. 4. Recommendations (a) There is immediate need to review GP-wise the status of implementation at the DPC and State level and ensure that all households who want to work under NREGA are issued job cards immediately and it should be done in a campaign mode.
(b) All GPs where no work is going on, a new work especially the water harvesting structure after a proper survey of topography should be opened to provide immediate employment to the poor households. (c) Thereafter, thorough survey may be carried out to explore the possibilities of individual activities which has great potential in this area that may be taken up in the lands of SCs/STs on priority basis on the lines that has been taken up on Chetram’s field in Kaluana Village. Only such activities will provide poor families with sustainable income that would pull them out of poverty trap without injecting subsidy every year. (d) While promoting individual activities in particular and common agricultural practice in general, the concept of organic farming as promoted by Shri Subhash Palekar which has established high yield as compared to traditional practices, should be taken care of. The DPC and the State Government should immediately motivate and identify interested farmers to be associated with this concept who may practice this concept in the farming on a pilot basis. A workshop of such farmers may be organized in which the promoter of the concept Shri Subhash Palekar may be invited that would bring in paradigm shift in agricultural concepts and practices. SRD also presented a set of four books authored by Shri Palekar to the DPC for developing his insight on the subject. (e) Since the DPC has done commendable job in motivation of the community for donating blood on regular intervals and already has a team of dedicated motivators and Camp organizers which has effected blood donation as a mass movement in the district thereby setting a world record and so has a ready-built infrastructure and the human capital which only requires a small ignition to be associated with Mahatma Gandhi NREGA as well. The motivators and the camp organizers may be given basic motivational training at the local level itself with regard to basics of MGNREGA. The faculty members of Haryana Institute of Rural Development may be asked to visit Sirsa and impart such trainings for which they already have training modules. (f) The training has to be provided at the door steps and would include basics as how to hold the Gram Sabha that must discuss the potential demand for employment and the number & types of works that would need to be taken up which are of their economic and social interest through which demand for employment could be satisfied during the year(planning process), how the Gram Sabha would periodically monitor the implementation and progress of the Scheme(M&VC), basic yardsticks of measurement, how to hold social audit, what are the basic documents to be maintained at the GP level, role of GRS in this, periodicity of wage payment etc. (g)It should also be ensured that the workers are able to get their wages not over a cycle of 15 days. A facilitator who would assist the workers in filling up the withdrawal forms should be explored. The DPC was suggested to make the cycle of the muster rolls of seven days in order to ensure completion of the wage payment formalities within 15 days. *************
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