Lok Sabha Question No. 3891 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-08
Subject: Monitoring of Rural Schemes
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SUSHMITA DEV, JYOTIRADITYA MADHAVRAO SCINDIA, K. KAMARAAJ

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .3891 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.1 2.2016

## MONITORING OF RURAL SCHEMES

## 3891. KUMARI SUSHMITA DEV: SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA: DR. K. KAMARAJ:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Union  Government  has  recently  decided  to  form  a  special  cadre community  people  to  carry  out  social  audit  and  monitoring  the  implementatio rural development schemes and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  people's  representative s  are  associated  with  Monitoring  Committees reviewing  the  implementation  of  the  various  rural  development  schemes  w particular reference to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarant Scheme (MGNREGS) in their constituencies and if so, the de tails thereof the and if not, the corrective measures proposed to be taken by the Government in this re
- (c) whether there is also a need for online recording and monitoring of assets to check leakages and effective mapping of terrain for future deve lopmental works particularly works allocated under MGNREGS and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the  progress  of  geo - tagging  of  all  assets  created  under  the  MGNREGS  as  on  30 November, 2016?

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

(a): In pursuance of Section 17(1) of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, Gram Sabha is required to conduct regular social aud of all the MGNREGA works under the scheme taken up within th e Gram Panchayat. The Ministry of Rural Development in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor Ge (C&AG) notified the Audit of Scheme Rules, 2011 under Section (1) of Section 24 of t for laying down the methodology and principles of conduc ting social audits.

Each  state  is  mandated  to  form  independent  social  audit  units,  which  are  financi administratively independent of the implementing agency. The Ministry is providing Financial Assistance to these units for engaging minimu m core staff. Recently, the Ministry of Rural Development has rolled - out a mandatory 30 - day certification course on social audits for the resource persons engaged at the State, District and block level.

The  resource  persons  engaged  at  the  village  level  as socia uditors  are  from  the  local community, are above 18, semi - literate, whose family members have worked in MGNREGA, youth  from  associated  networks  such  as  SHG  members,  community  based  organisation Bharat Nirman Volunteers.

(b): The  people's  re presentatives  are  nominated  in  District  Development  Co - ordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) which is constituted in June 2016 replacing the Dis and Vigilance and Monitoring Committee with a view to fulfill the objective of ens better coo rdination among all the elected representatives in Parliament, State Legisla Local  Governments  (Panchayati  Raj  Institutions/Municipal  Bodies)  for  efficient  an bound development of districts in the country.

(c): The  Ministry  has  introduced a  Fixed  Asset  Register  (FAR)  which  is  a  permanent record of each asset in a physical form. Till date 2,26,756 Gram Panchayats are mai the FAR.

To  address  the  twin  objectives  of  'Planning'  and  'Accountability',  Ministry  of  Rural Development  has  de signed  a  unique  solution  by  integrating  space  technology  and  a tracking  management  solution  under  the  project  GeoMGNREGA  with  a  vision  to  make geotagged asset data under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA transparent and available in the pu domain  accessible  to all.  The  GeoMGNREGA  was  rolled  out  in  public  domain  on  30th November, 2016 and is accessible on the website http://www.nrega.nic.in/ .

The objective is to create a Geographical Information System (GIS) sol ution to visualize, analyze and explore such asset related data and also manage them more effectively with better understanding of the impact.

(d): State/UT - wise number of geotags available in public domain as GeoMGNREGA are given in the Ann exure.

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## Annexure  referred  in  reply  to  part  (d)  of  Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3891 dated 08.12.2016.

|   No. | State / UT        |   No. of Geotags in Public domain (as on 30.11.2016) |
|-------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
|     1 | Karnataka         |                                               117136 |
|     2 | Telangana         |                                                62016 |
|     3 | Tamil Nadu        |                                                52840 |
|     4 | West Bengal       |                                                47963 |
|     5 | Odisha            |                                                44507 |
|     6 | Kerala            |                                                42244 |
|     7 | Jharkhand         |                                                40242 |
|     8 | Maharashtra       |                                                39351 |
|     9 | Rajasthan         |                                                39076 |
|    10 | Jammu &Kashmir    |                                                37649 |
|    11 | Madhya Pradesh    |                                                22621 |
|    12 | Uttar Pradesh     |                                                16333 |
|    13 | Bihar             |                                                13691 |
|    14 | Chhattisgarh      |                                                13535 |
|    15 | Gujarat           |                                                 9289 |
|    16 | Assam             |                                                 8384 |
|    17 | Tripura           |                                                 3719 |
|    18 | Mizoram           |                                                 3484 |
|    19 | Haryana           |                                                 3288 |
|    20 | Uttarakhand       |                                                 2539 |
|    21 | Sikkim            |                                                 1807 |
|    22 | Himachal Pradesh  |                                                 1732 |
|    23 | Meghalaya         |                                                 1137 |
|    24 | Arunachal Pradesh |                                                  688 |
|    25 | Nagaland          |                                                  546 |
|    26 | Punjab            |                                                  475 |
|    27 | Manipur           |                                                   78 |
|    28 | Total             |                                               626370 |