Lok Sabha Question No. 733 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: Activities under MGNREGS
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: NANDI YELLAIAH

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 733

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.12 .2015

## ACTIVITIES UNDER MGNREGS

## 733. SHRI NANDI YELLAIAH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of works/projects being carried out under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA) scheme at present, State/UT - wise;
- (b) whether  50  per  cent  of  all  the  works that  are  taken  up  at  the  district  level der MGNREGA should be only for water conservation, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government proposes that States seek funds from MGNREGA allocations for constructing  Individual Household  Latrines  under  the  guidelines  of Nirmal  Bharat Abhiyan;
- (d) if so, the details thereof along with the guidelines of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan; and
- (e) the  details  of  individual  latrines constructed  so  far  in  Telangana  under  Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT)

- (a): The Ministry has comprehensively revised the list of permissible works under Mahatma Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Act  (MGNREGA) vide  Gazette  Notification dated 3.1.2014. The revised works as listed in Para 4(1), Schedule I of MGNREGA, 2005 is at Annexure - I . The  States/  UTs  can  take  up  any  work  out  of  the  works  listed  in Schedule - 1, MGNREGA.
- (b): As  per Para - 5  of  Schedule -I,  MGNREGA, ' The  order  of  priority  of  works  shall determined by  each  Gram  Panchayat  in the  meeting  of the  Gram  Sabha  keeping  in  view potential of the local area, its needs, local resources and in accordance with th Paragraph 9, provided that the District Programme Coordinator shall ensure that at works to be take n up in a district in terms of cost shall be for creation of productive linked to agriculture and allied activities through development of land, water & trees'

(c) &(d): Construction of Individual House Hold Latrines (IHHL s) is one of the works permitted  under  MGNREGA.  However,  to  keep  the  uniformity  in  design  &  unit ofIHHL,  the  Ministry  has  instructed  States/  UTs  to  follow  the  guidelines  o Swachh Bharat Mission -Gramin (SBM -G), while constructing IHHLs under MGNREGA.

(e): The  details  of  IHHLs  constructed  during  the  Financial  Year  2014 -15  and the current year (till 30.11.20 15) in Telangana under SBM -G is given in Annexure -II .

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## Annexure - I referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No dated 03.12.2015

## I. Category A: Public works relating to natural resources management:

- (i) Water  conservation and  water  harvesting  structures  to  augment  a improve  groundwater  like underground  dykes,  earthen  dams,  stop dams,  check  dams  with  special  focus  on recharging  ground water including drinking water sources;
- (ii) Watershed managementworks such as contour  trenches,  terracin contour  bunds,  boulder  checks,  gabion  structures  and  spring development resulting in a comprehensive treatment of a watershed
- (iii) Mi cro and minor irrigation works and creation, renovation maintenance of irrigation canals and drai s;
- (iv) Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of irrigati tanks and other water bodies;
- (v) Afforestation,  tree  plantation  and  horticulture in  common  and  forest lands, road margins, canal bunds, tank foreshores and coastal be providing right to usufruct to the households covered in Paragraph 5.
- (vi) Land development works in common land.

## II. Category B:  Community assets or individual  assets f or vulnerable sections (only for households in paragraph 5):

- (i) Improving productivity of lands of households specified in Paragraph through  land  development and  by  providing  suitable  infrastructure irrigation  including  dug  wells,  farm  ponds  and  other waterharvesting structures;
- (ii) Improving  livelihoods through  horticulture,  sericulture,  plantation farm forestry;
- (iii) Development of fallow or waste lands of households defined in Paragraph 5 to bring it under cultivation;
- (iv) Unskilled wage component in constr uction of houses sanctioned under the Indira Awas Yojana or such other State or Central Government Scheme;
- (v) Creating infrastructure for promotion of livestock such as, poultry shelter, goat shelter, piggery shelter, cattle shelter and fodder troughs for ca tle; and
- (vi) Creating  infrastructure  for promotion  of  fisheries such  as,  fish  drying yards,  storage  facilities,  and promotion  of  fisheries  in  seasonal  wat 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 fert lizers  and  post -harvest  facilities including pucca storage facilities for agricultural produce;
- (ii) Common work -sheds for livelihood activities of self -hel p groups.

## IV. Category D: Rural infrastructure:

- (i) Rural  sanitation related  works,  such  as,  individual  household  latr school toilet units, Anganwadi toilets either independently or convergence with schemes of other Government Department to achieve  'open  defecation  free'  status.  and  solid  and  liquid  waste management as per prescribed norms.
- (ii) Providing all -weather rural road connectivity to unconnected villages and to connect identified rural production centers to the existing pucca r networ k;  and  construction  of  pucca  internal roadsorstreets including side drains and culverts within a village;
- (iii) Construction of play fields;
- (iv) Works  for  improving disaster  preparedness  or  restoration of  roads  or restoration  of  other  essential public infrastructure  including  floo control  and  protection  works,  providing  drainage  in  water logged areas,  deepening  and  repairing  of  flood  channels,  chaur  reno construction of storm water drains for coastal protection;

and

- (v) Construction  of buildings for  Gra m  Panchayats,  women  self -help  groups' federations, cyclone shelters, Anganwadi centers, village haats crematoria at the village or block level.
- (vi) Construction  of Food  Grain  Storage  Structures for  implementing  the provisions of The National Food Security Act 2013 (20 of 2013);
- (vii) Production of building material required for construction works the Act as a part of the estimate of such construction works.
- (viii)Maintenanceof rural public assets created under the Act;

MGNREGA: IHHL Constructed in Telangana

|     |             | No of Units Completed   | No of Units Completed    |
|-----|-------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|
| No. | State       | 2014- 15                | 2015- 16 till 30/11/2015 |
| 1   | ADILABAD    | 13598                   | 3246                     |
| 2   | KARIMNAGAR  | 3274                    | 415                      |
| 3   | KHAMMAM     | 3063                    | 0                        |
| 4   | MAHBUBNAGAR | 15765                   | 2417                     |
| 5   | MEDAK       | 10382                   | 172                      |
| 6   | NALGONDA    | 30310                   | 1844                     |
| 7   | NIZAMABAD   | 17786                   | 633                      |
| 8   | RANGAREDDI  | 3220                    | 1333                     |
| 9   | WARANGAL    | 24663                   | 622                      |
|     | Total       | 122061                  | 10682                    |