Lok Sabha Question No. 3680 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-23
Subject: Job Cards to Landless Casual Labourers
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JOSE K. MANI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .3680 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.03 .2017

## JOB CARDS TO LANDLESS CASUAL LABOURERS

## 3680. SHRI JOSE K. MANI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether in a clean - up exercise the Government is surveying 5.4 crore landless cas labourers  to  assess  if  they  have  access  to  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  R Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) job cards and if so, the details thereof State/UT - wise;
- (b) whether  the  deprivation  data  under  Socio - Economic  and  Caste  Census  (SECC)  is being  used  to  identify  the  poor  households  who  have  not  been  covered  un MGN REGS and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether an expert group on SECC had recommended that MGNREGS needs to be more focussed towards the regions where there is a greater concentration of l labour or where people are suffering from multi - dimensi onal deprivation; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT ( SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV )

(a)& (b): As per para 3 of Schedule -II, the job card is valid for at least five years which, it may be renewed after due verification. State/UT - wise number of deleted Job card in current  Financial  Year  2016 - 17  (as  on  21.03.2017)  under  the  Mahatma  Gandhi  National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) due to reasons like fakes, misappropriation wrong allocation and deceased are given at Annexure. States have been advised to ca exercises to include willing households from deprived categories as per S c o - Economic and Caste Census ( SECC), 2011 especially from landless households dependent on casual manu labour.

(c)& (d): The Expert Group set up to study objective criteria for allocation of r to states and identification and prioritization of beneficiarie s under various programmes using SECC has observed that 'MGNREGA by design is a demand driven universal programme, SECC  criteria  of  automatic  exclusion  cannot  be  applied  in  this  programme  to  ex households.  However,  the  Group  observed  that  MGNREGS  need s  to  be  more  focused towards the regions where there is greater concentration of landless labourer or suffering from multi - dimensional deprivations in order to bring about change in the s -economic landscape of the poor regions of the country . Cluster Facilitation Teams (CFTs) may  be  strengthened  to  address  the  issues  of  demand  for  work  in  the  GPs  with concentration  of  deprived  households  and  landless  manual  labour.  Households  repo deprivation and those reporting on automatic inclu sion criterion may be pro - actively included by the PRIs for job cards and Aadhar linked bank account'.

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Annexure referred in  reply  to  parts (a) &(b)of Lok Sabha  Unstarred Question No. 3680 dated 23.03.2017.

| S.No.   | States            | No. of deleted Job card in current Financial Year 2016-17 (as on 21.03.2017)   |
|---------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1       | ANDHRAPRADESH     | 238438                                                                         |
| 2       | ARUNACHALPRADESH  | 5908                                                                           |
| 3       | ASSAM             | 543406                                                                         |
| 4       | BIHAR             | 123109                                                                         |
| 5       | CHHATTISGARH      | 476923                                                                         |
| 6       | GOA               | 21                                                                             |
| 7       | GUJARAT           | 339697                                                                         |
| 8       | HARYANA           | 23334                                                                          |
| 9       | HIMACHAL PRADESH  | 35188                                                                          |
| 10      | JAMMUANDKASHMIR   | 111171                                                                         |
| 11      | JHARKHAND         | 111683                                                                         |
| 12      | KARNATAKA         | 672757                                                                         |
| 13      | KERALA            | 55792                                                                          |
| 14      | MADHYAPRADESH     | 2162300                                                                        |
| 15      | MAHARASHTRA       | 76787                                                                          |
| 16      | MANIPUR           | 4675                                                                           |
| 17      | MEGHALAYA         | 13038                                                                          |
| 18      | MIZORAM           | 2743                                                                           |
| 19      | NAGALAND          | 0                                                                              |
| 20      | ODISHA            | 411577                                                                         |
| 21      | PUNJAB            | 6676                                                                           |
| 22      | RAJASTHAN         | 625288                                                                         |
| 23      | SIKKIM            | 9607                                                                           |
| 24      | TAMILNADU         | 937731                                                                         |
| 25      | TELANGANA         | 0                                                                              |
| 26      | TRIPURA           | 19546                                                                          |
| 27      | UTTAR PRADESH     | 1743688                                                                        |
| 28      | UTTARAKHAND       | 128592                                                                         |
| 29      | WEST BENGAL       | 67520                                                                          |
| 30      | ANDAMANANDNICOBAR | 0                                                                              |
| 31      | LAKSHADWEEP       | 0                                                                              |
| 32      | PUDUCHERRY        | 1596                                                                           |
|         | Total             | 89,48,791                                                                      |