Lok Sabha Question No. 3640 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-23
Subject: Works Permitted under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SONA RAM CHOUDHARY

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .3640 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.03 .2017

## WORKS PERMITTED UNDER MGNREGS

## 3640. COL. SONARAM CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the works permitted under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Category - wise;

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- (b) whether the  Government  has  made  certain  changes  under  the  said  scheme  t accommodate more heads of works;
- (c) if so, the details thereof along with the guidelines/directions issued in this
- (d) whether the  Government  has  proposed  to  link/converge  MGNREGS  with  other flagship programmes and activities required at local level and if so, the deta and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to ensure better and effective implementat the sai d scheme across the country?

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

- (a): The permissible works under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA are listed in Schedule -I of the Act which is at Annexure.

(b)&(c): The Ministry has been amending Schedule -I of Act from time to time. The latest amendment was made in Paragraph 20 of the Schedule -I of the Act on 22 nd June, 2016 as under:

'For  all  works  up  under  the  Scheme,  by  the  Gram  Panchayat  and  other  implementing agencies, the cost of the material component including the wages of the skilled a -skilled workers, shall not exceed forty percent at t he district level.'

- (d): There is provision for convergence of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA works with related works  under  other  programmes  like  Indira  Awas  Yojana,  Integrated  Water  Managemen Programme,  National  Rural  Livelihood  Mission,  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak Yojana  of Ministry  of  Rural  Development,  Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Sinchayee  Yojana,  etc. Government has launched Project LIFE - MGNREGA, a convergence initiative with Ajeevika Skills Mission (NRLM) and Deen Dayal Upadhaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna to skill t he youth from families that are solely dependent on MGNREGA works.
- (e): The  Ministry  has  established  a  comprehensive  system  of  monitoring  and  rev mechanism for MGNREGA. The evaluation of works under MGNREGA is regularly done in the Performance Review C ommittee meetings, Video conferences and weekly meetings. State specific reviews of States are also undertaken from time to time. Officers of the Mi National Level Monitors also visit various districts to oversee the performance MGNREGA. Duri ng these reviews, the implementation aspects that need strengthening identified including the areas for improvement in the quality of assets.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 364 dated 23.03.2017.

- I . Category: A: Public works relating to Natural resources management:
- ( i ) Water  conservation and  water  harvesting  structures  to  augment  and  improve groundwater like underground dykes, earthen dams, stop dams, check dams wi special focus on recharging ground water including drinking water sources;
- ( ii ) Watershed  management  w orks  such  as  contour  trenc hes,  terracing,  contour bunds, boulder checks, gabion structures and spring shed development result a comprehensive treatment of a watershed;
- ( iii ) Micro and minor irrigation works and creation, renovation and maintenanc irrigation canals and drains;
- ( iv ) Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of irrigation tanks an other water bodies;
- ( v) Afforestation , tree plantation and horticulture in common and forest lands, margins, canal bunds, tank foreshores and coastal belts duly providing r ight to usufruct to the households covered in Paragraph 5; and
- ( vi ) Land development works in common land.

## II . Category  B: COMMUNITY  ASSETS  OR Individual  assets  for  vulnerable sections):

- ( i ) Improving productivity of lands of households specified in Paragraph5 through land development and by providing suitable infrastructure for irrigation i dug wells, farm ponds and other water harvesting structures;
- ( ii ) Improving  livelihoods  through horticulture,  sericulture,  plantation,  and  fa forestry;
- ( iii ) Development of fallow or waste lands of households defined in Paragraph 5 to bring it under cultivation;
- ( iv ) Unskilled wage component in construction of houses sanctioned under the Indira AwaasYojana or such other State or Central Government Scheme;
- ( v) Creating infrastructure for prom otion of livestock such as, poultry shelter, goat shelter, piggery shelter, cattle shelter and fodder troughs for cattle; and
- ( vi ) Creating  infrastructure  for promotion  of  fisheries such  as,  fish  drying  yards, storage facilities, and promotion of fisheries in seasonal water bodies on public land;

## III . Category C: Common infrastructure INCLUDING for NRLM compliant self help groups:

- ( i ) Works for promoting agricultural productivity by creating durable infrastructure required  for  bio - fertilizers  and  post - harvest  facilities  including  pucca  storage facilities for agricultural produce; and
- ( ii ) Common work - sheds for livelihood activities of self - help groups.

## IV. Category D: Rural infrastructur e:

- ( i ) Rural sanitation related works, such as, individual household latrines, toilet  units,  Anganwadi  toilets  either  independently  or  in  convergenc schemes of other Government Departments to achieve 'open defecation free' status. and solid and li quid waste management as per prescribed norms.
- ( ii ) Providing all - weather rural road connectivity to unconnected villages and connect identified rural production centres to the existing pucca road n and construction of pucca internal roads or streets including side drains and culverts within a village.
- ( iii ) Construction of play fields.
- ( iv ) Works  for  improving  disaster  preparedness  or  restoration  of  roads restoration of other essential public infrastructure including flood  co protection  works, providing drainage  in  water  logged  areas, deepeni repairing  of  flood  chann els,  chaur  renovation,  construction  of  storm  wate drains for coastal protection.
- ( v) Construction  of  buildings  for  Gram  Panchayats,  women  serlf -help  groups' federations, cyclone shelters, Anganwadi centres, village haats and crem at the village or block level.
- ( vi ) Construction of Food Grain Storage Structures for implementing provisions of The National Food Security Act 2013 (20 of 2013).

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- ( vii ) Production of building material required for construction works under th as a part of the estimate of such const ructi works.
- ( viii ) Maintenance of rural public assets created under the Act; and
- ( ix ) any  other  work  which  may  be  notified  by  the  Central  Government  i consultation with the State Government in this regard.