Lok Sabha Question No. 2024 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-28
Subject: Linking MGNREGS with Agriculture Works
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: CH. MALLA REDDY, MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVNTHI), NARASIMHAM THOTA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO .2024

TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.07 .201 6

## LINKING MGNREGS WITH AGRICULTURE WORKS

## 2024. SHRI CH. MALLA REDDY: SHRI MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVANTHI): SHRI NARASIMHAM THOTA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  there  has  been  demand  from  the  State  Governments  viz.  Maharashtr Andhra  Pradesh  and  Telangana  to  the Ministry  to  link  Mahatma  Gandhi  National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) with agriculture works;
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the time by which the Government would include agriculture in the MGNREGS li of works?

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

(a)to(c): Agriculture  related  works  are  already  permitted  under  Mahatma  Gandh National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The Sub Para (2) of Paragraph 4 of  Schedule 1, MGNREGA, lays down that, 'District Programme Coordinator shall ensure that at least 60% o f the works to be taken up in a district in terms of cost, shall be f of productive assets directly linked to agriculture and allied activities through de land,  water  and  trees'.  The  list  of  Mahatma  Gandhi  NREGA  works  directly  linked to Agriculture and allied activities as per the Schedule -I of the Act are given in the Annexure .

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## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a)to(c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2024 dated 28.07.2016.

| CATEGORY AS PER SCHEDULE-1, OF THE ACT                               | WORKS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| (1)                                                                  | (2)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| 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 with special focus on recharging ground water including drinking water sources; (ii) Watershed management w orks such as contour trenches, terracing, contour bunds, boulder checks, gabion structures and spring shed development resulting in a comprehensive treatment of a watershed; (iii) Micro and minor irrigation works and creation, renovation and maintenance of irrigation canals and drains; (iv) Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of irrigation tanks and other water bodies; (v) Afforestation , tree plantation and horticulture in common and forest lands, road margins, canal bunds, tank foreshores and coastal belts duly providing right to usufruct to the households covered in Paragraph 5; (vi) Pasture Development ; perennial grasses like Stylo etc. |
| II. Category B :COMMUNITY ASSETS OR INDIVIDUAL ASSETS                | (vii) Bamboo and Rubber and Coconut Cultivation. (viii)Land development works in common land. (i) Improving productivity of lands of households specified in Paragraph 5 through land development and by providing suitable infrastructure for irrigation including dug wells, farm ponds and other water harvesting structures. (ii) Improving livelihoods through horticulture, sericulture, plantation, and farm forestry, Azola. (iii) Development of fallow/waste lands of households defined in Paragraph 5 to bring it under cultivation; (iv) Pasture Development; perennial grasses like Stylo, vetiver etc. ; (v) Bamboo and Rubber, Coconut Cultivation (vi) Unskilled wage component in construction of houses sanctioned under the Indira Awaas Yojana or such other State or Central Government scheme. (vii) Creating infrastructure for promotion of livestock such as, poultry shelter (brooder                                                   |

| CATEGORY AS PER SCHEDULE-1, OF THE ACT                                               | WORKS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| (1)                                                                                  | (2) house), goat shelter, piggery shelter, cattle                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|                                                                                      | shelter and fodder troughs for cattle; (viii) Creating infrastructure for promotion of fisheries such as, fish drying yards, storage facilities, and promotion of fisheries in seasonal water bodies on public land; (ix) Bio-fertilisers (NADEP, Vermi-composting, etc). |
| 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 (NADEP and Vermicomposting pits) and post-harvest facilities including pucca storage facilities for agricultural produce;                               |
| IV. Category D: RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE:                                                | (i) Construction of Food Grain Storage Structures for implementing the provisions of The National Food Security Act (2013);                                                                                                                                               |