1. Implementation of MGNREGS – AP Government of Andhra Pradesh1

2. Scheme of presentation
MGNREGS – AP – At a glance
The process of implementation
Improving the system
Major works
MGNREGS & Marginalised Groups
Social audit & vigilance systems

3. MGNREGS AP – Glance (cumulative as on 18th Nov 2011)
Total No. of Job cards issued:
1.22 Cr
Total No. of HHs provided wage employment:
Total No. of Individuals provided wage employment:
1.83 Cr
Total No. of HHs completed 100 days
36,23,778
Total Expenditure
Rs 17,140 Cr
Total Wage Expenditure
Rs 12,685 Cr
Total Material Expenditure
Rs. 3,554 Cr
Total Person days generated
139.8 Cr
Total No of works completed
16,92,409

4. MGNREGS AP – Glance (Performance during 2011-12)
Total No. of HHs provided wage employment:
42,12,343
Total No. of Individuals provided wage employment:
75,08,597
Total No. of HHs completed 100 days
3,71,948
Total Expenditure
Rs 2,528 Cr
Total Wage Expenditure
Rs 1,745 Cr
Total Material Expenditure
Rs. 585 Cr
Total Person days generated
17.6 Cr
Total No of works completed
1,67,424

5. The AP approach to MGNREGA
Works to focus on upgrading the natural resources at the command of the rural poor – reduce dependence on wage labour
Relevance and the quality of the works seen from the perspective of the poor
People are the most effective sentinels
Empowering people to run the programme
Organisation of the wage seekers in to SSSs
Use of ICT for efficient implementation

6. Unique Features of MGNREGS - AP

7. Unique Features of MGNREGS – AP
End to End IT utilization
Work - time motion study
Project mode planning
Land inventory of SC and STs
Comprehensive land development of poor
Shrama Shakti Sanghalu (Labour Groups)
Work Employment Plan
Electronic Muster and Measurement System (eMMS)
Electronic Fund Management System (eFMS)

8. Unique Features of MGNREGS – AP (cont)
Wage payments through biometric authentications
Nurseries and bund plantations
Community managed sustainable agriculture (CMSA)
AP-NGO alliance (APNA)
24X7 Call Centre
Concurrent Social Audit
Vigilance and Social Audit follow-up action

9. The implementation system

10. Muster Roll Muster Roll management system Weekly Muster
Every Muster roll with unique ID
Hologram of MGNREGS
Issued for a work and for a specified period of one week
Muster Watch Book is maintained at PO level to monitor the muster issue and receipt
Muster issue date and receipt date is written on each muster
Every Muster roll received end of week

11. IT utilization
Comprehensive IT software that provides end-to-end IT solution in MGNREGA – ‘RAGAS’
The transaction based software:
issues job cards,
maintains shelf of projects,
generates estimates,
issues work commencement letters,
updates muster rolls and
generates pay orders.
The software is being constantly upgraded to suit the changing requirements of the programme.
Now RAGAS is converted to Online mode from Offline mode. 11 11

12. IT hubs at Mandals
At each Mandal level (25 villages) there is one Mandal computer center (MCC) manned by 2 computer operators.
On each convergence department, there is a Departmental computer center (DCC) at Mandal / cluster of Mandals.

13. Payment of Wages

14. Fixed Payment cycle Opening of Muster Disbursement of wages to Labour
Mon
Day 1
Wed - Sat
(Day )
Closing of Muster Roll
Conveyance of cash to village
Wed-Fri
Day
Sat
Day 6
Measurement & Check Measurement
e-Payorders and transferring money to the paying agencies
Tue-Wed
Day 9-10
Sat-Mon
Day 6-8
Mon-Tue
Day 8-9
Data Entry in MCC
Sat-Mon
Day 6-8
Pay Order generation & Uploading by PO 14 14

15. Muster Roll & Measurement Book
Payment of wages system
eMMS
Muster Roll & Measurement Book
Pay slip
through FA/ Mate
Post Office/
Smart Card Bank
Cash Through BPM /CSP

16. Improving the system – Planning exercise

17. Project mode planning
Professional approach to planning and implementation
Primacy to upgrade the unproductive, fallow lands into productive assets
Logical grouping works into projects
Better supervision, measurable results
Ridge-to-valley treatment in soil conservation works
Nearly 14 lakh acres of land has been treated and brought under cultivation

18. Each farm to be a project
Mission mode to saturate land development in lands of poorest of poor
Multiple treatments resulting in annual income of Rs. 25,000 per acre
Land development – 15 types of treatment
SMC/Irrigation
Horticulture/organic agriculture
Exhaustive Land Inventory for identification of land in all Mandals by 200 Paralegals & surveyors and 3200 Village Social Auditors
GPS coordinates for tracking of progress of each project

19. Land inventory of poor and follow up
Land to be surveyed – 25 lakh acres – 21,000 Gram Panchayats
30,000 youth and paralegals used in teams
Land records provided to these teams
Inventory to include
Fallow land with reasons/interventions
MGNREGA investments
Land development
Irrigation
Horticulture
Unproductive cultivated land
Land issues affecting land access
Land under cultivation, no patta
Paper patta no possession
Boundary disputes
SERP land cell to take follow up
Action
600 paralegals and SHGs
Computerisation of the inventory for monitoring
and follow up

20. Shrama Shakthi Sanghas
All serious labourers are grouped into Shrama Shakti Sanghas (Fixed groups)
To ensure 100 days wage employment to all the house holds in SSS groups is the main objective.
87.1 lakh labourers are organized into 4.82 lakh SSS groups.
Works allocated to each group sufficient for 100 days
Muster rolls issued in advance to ensure continuous work
SSS plans its implementation schedule

21. Work Employment Plan Objective:
To ensure that all the member-households of Shrama Shakti Sanghas get 125 days of employment.
To encourage the groups to plan for the days of employment needed for taking up the work
To plan for providing work during lean periods of agricultural season for the labourers
To plan the works to be taken up for each SSS group based on the Work Employment Plan
To ensure that no SSS household in need of work shall be left without work

22. WEP – Process
Team shall conduct meeting with each SSS group in each GP
Review of works allotted, completed and balance man days available per group
Plan for the remaining work by identifying number of calendar days, the labourers of the group can work in each month
The plan finalized shall be entered in the Plan Slip which should be given to Mate of the group
The plan should also be transmitted through mobile application by Technical Assistant

23. WEP – Outcome
Work wise and month wise plan for each SSS group of every GP
Works can be planned so that no SSS household in need of work shall be left without work even during lean season.

24. Improving the system – electronic fund management system (eFMS)

25. 4 stage release – delays and parking of funds prior to eFMS
GoI to
State Fund
Request for funds
Release of funds
State to the
DRDA
DRDA to
Block
Block to GP

26. Funds in pipeline: shortage every where
Rs. 430 Cr available in the State, but there is shortage every where
Where funds are used, there is shortage
Where no works take place, there is ‘hoarding’
Widespread dissatisfaction
Stoppage of works in places

27. Principles of eFMS Funds flow only to the user Centralised fund
Decentralised utilisation
Connectivity through electronic mode
Transfer in 24 hours
High degree of accountability – electronic trail

28. Wage seeker Post Office A/c
eFMS Process
NREGS Server
Bank Server
Program Office
Data Transfer of FTOs
Pay order and Fund Transfer Order (FTO)
Acknowledgement
Reconciliation
RBI Server
CBS System
Wage seeker Post Office A/c
Smart Card Bank A/c
Supplier A/c
Employee A/c
UTR No

29. Advantages No multiple accounts No multiple cheques
No deficiency of funds at any level
No parking of funds
The Block level staff is liberated from the maintenance of cheque books and tedious accounts system
Avoids forgery of Bank cheques by subordinate staff

30. Improving the system – electronic muster and measurement system (eMMS)

31. Electronic Muster & Measurement System (eMMS)
The objective is to achieve complete transparency in implementation of MGNREGS by obtaining LIVE data from the Worksite to the Website on a daily basis.
The mobile technology is customised and deployed for the MGNREGS field functionaries through different mobile applications like e-Muster, e-Measurement, e-muster verification and e-check measurement.
eMMS is designed to arrest distortions in the programme like Muster Fudging; Delays in Payments; Binami Wage seekers; Fake Measurements and Work Duplication.
eMMS is being implemented in all the districts except Nizamabad.
eMMs linked to generation of payorders is in the implementation stage 31 31

32. eMMS Process 32 32

33. FA using e-MMS

34. Improving the system – biometric smart cards

35. Biometric payments – Smart Cards
MGNREGS payments are done in the village using bio-metric identification process through smart cards.
Each beneficiary is issued a biometric smart card (finger print technology) at the village level.
Banks appoints a Customer Service Provider (CSP) identified by the banker equipped with a smart card reader networked to the bank server.
Each beneficiary is given a bank account after biometric authentication by the bank.
All disbursements are credited electronically to the accounts of the beneficiaries.
Banks arrange cash to the CSP using a Business Correspondent (BC).
A village-wise campaign is underway to issue to all the wage seekers 35 35

36. Biometric Technology Receipt Generation Slot
Slot to capture thumb print
Slot to insert Operator / Customer card
Arrow Key for starting the device
F button …
Image
Template
AXIS BANK
BLC
MEKALA NARAYANAMMA
DoB: 05-AUG-1965
D/o. Guntala Lingaiah
VILLAGE: DOMA
MANDAL: ACHAMPET 36 36

37. Smart Card Payments -Process Flow
Block Office
Business Correspondent
CASH
Cash
Disbursement
BANK
Payment to Labor by Agent
e-payorder 37 37

38. Focus on land of poor – as prime strategy in MGNREGA
Major works
Focus on land of poor – as prime strategy in MGNREGA

39. Fallow Land Development (upto Nov 18 2011)
Particulars
Land identified (acres in lakhs)
Farmers identified (lakhs)
Estimated amount (Rs Crores)
Inprogress (acres in lakhs)
Completed (acres)
Expenditure (Rs Cr)
SC & ST
13.1
5.65
4979
4.94
21804
460
Small & Marginal Farmers
9.33
3.51
3209
3.2
17449
261
Total Fallow Lands
22.43
9.16
8188
8.14
39253
721

40. Degraded Cultivable Land Development (upto Nov 18th 2011)
Particulars
Land identified (acres in lakhs)
Farmers identified (lakhs)
Estimated amount (Rs Cr)
Inprogress (acres in lakhs)
Completed (acres)
Expenditure (Rs Crores)
SC & ST
17.2
7.4
3885
3.44
19106
197
S&M
16.05
6.16
3022
3.34
34137
195
Total Cultivable Lands
33.25
13.56
6907
6.78
53243
392
Total land taken up
55.68
22.72
15095
14.92
92496
1113

41. Works under Land development project
Juliflora Clearance with stumps removal
Boulder Removal
Stone Bunding
Pebble Bunding
Terracing in Hill / slope areas
Boundary Trench cum plantation
Intermediate Trench - Cum -Bund -cum Plantation
Farm Pond
Silt application
Gypsum Application in alkaline lands
Compost Pit
Mini Percolation Tank
New Open well
Deep Ploughing in virgin lands
Cultivator Ploughing (Tillering) in virgin lands

42. Mahatma Gandhi Vana Nurseries
Objectives & strategy
To build green assets with multiple short and long team benefits on boundaries and bunds of lands of marginal farmers
Agro-forestry as additional income source to poor
Use field bunds for plantation
Plant mix consisting of fodder, fuel, timber species
Production of plant material in decentralized peoples’ nurseries

43. Mahatma Gandhi Boundary, Bund plantation
Salient features
Demand is collected from each farmer
Mainly agro forestry species like Teak, Red sanders
etc., are in demand
Expenditure for pitting, planting, staking and maintenance is transferred to farmer’s account
As per choice of farmers trenches are dug between plants to give prolonged soil moisture.
For protection and maintenance of plants:
I Year : Rs.56 per surviving plant
II Year : Rs. 36 per surviving plant
III Year : Rs. 24 per surviving plant
20% Casualty replacement is allowed

44. MGVN Non-Negotiables
Choice of farmer is final in selection of species among agro forestry species
Plants which are taller than 1mtr only will be planted
Plantation shall be only on boundaries / bunds of the farmer lands, so that his base livelihood cropping is continued.

45. MGVN and Bund Plantation
2778 Nurseries established.
For every 4 to 5 GPs one nursery.
To raise a total of 100 Crore plants on farm bunds
Maximum of 170 plants per Acre
Demand collection is being done along with undertaking of the farmer
As per the demand collected so far : more than 90% demand is for timber species for boundary and bund plantation.

46. Bund/Boundary Plantation - Progress
Bund plantation activity is primarily taken up in SC/ST/Small & Marginal farmers’ agricultural land
1.2 Crore beneficiaries will be benefitted from the project over a period of five years
During the current financial year, around 5 Crore plants are being raised (Already 70 lakh were planted)

47. Horticulture - Objectives
To enhance rural livelihood security for small and marginal farmers of all sections and BPL families by providing 100% assistance to develop Horticulture Plantations.
Implementing NREGS- Horticulture in convergence with NHM & APMIP where there is assured source of irrigation on farmer’s land , and
Dry land Agriculture with manual watering where there is not assured irrigation.

48. Horticulture - Salient Features
Convergence with NHM & APMIP
In case of Dry land Horticulture, upto 36 manual watering are provided
100% assistance including maintenance for 3 years.
II yr maintenance assistance : only if survival is 75%
III yr maintenance assistance : only if survival is 90%
Target group – SCs & STs small & marginal farmers of BPL families.
Main crop is Mango: 60% overall and 95% in Dry land Horticulture
Other main crops are Sweet Orange, Lemon, Guava.

49. Horticulture - Strategy
To survey the lands found suitable for horticulture in the land inventory
Assess readiness of the farmer
Focus on the dry-land horticulture
Strict following of calendar of activities
Education & transfer of technology

50. Progress – Horticulture Plantation
No. of Acres pitting done : 65,775
No. of Acres Planting completed : 54,172
Mango planted : 20,441 acres ; Expenditure : 1534 lakhs
Cashew planted: 749 acres; Expenditure : 41 lakhs
Coffee planted:20,372 acres; Expenditure : 2669 lakhs
Rubber planted: 4935 acres; Expenditure : 983 lakhs

51. ABSTRACT OF HORTICULTURE PLANTATIONS (2007-08 TO 2010-11)
S.No
Year
Planting
Total Value (In lakh Rs)
No. of Farmers
Area
(in acres) 1
89,523
1,33,651
1,00,14 2
1,47,610
1,55,480
1,53,33 3
89,373
69,614
10,942 4
21079
40,216
7986
Total
3,47,585
3,98,961
44,275
Target for planting in is 70,000 Acres

52. Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture
Key Features:
Radical soil / moisture conservation
Non pesticide management (NPM)
Primacy for natural processes
Synergize with scientific knowledge
Eco-agriculture.
Multi-crop model
Progress:
Estimates were generated for Rs 497 Cr for identified works (as on 29 Aug 2011) 52

53. Ground water recharging project
Objectives & strategy:
To develop a holistic strategy for recharge of Groundwater in Over exploited, Critical and Semi Critical basins
To conduct comprehensive survey of all the villages in the basin for identification of ARS by experienced & senior Geologists using satellite and other scientific data.
To create a data base of all the interventions taken up in the past, concurrently and in future with respect to Water Harvesting Structures in the basin
To execute the identified works under the existing MGNREGS, CLDP and IWMP
To Monitor and Evaluate the interventions continuously to asses the impact.

54. Process: PLANNING: IMPLEMENTATION
FIVE progressive farmers from each village are trained and give hand holding support by the senior geologists in survey and identification of sites.
Survey is done in saturation approach and documented all the works
A repository of all the WHS existing and proposed in the village is created with estimates.
IMPLEMENTATION
Identified works will be executed under MGNREGS, RIDF and IWMP by concerned agencies like Gram Panchayats, Watershed Committees etc.

55. Process (Cont) MONITORING
The works will be continuously monitored by the Geologists for correctness of site and quality of work during and after implementation .
EVALUATION
The works executed will be evaluated to assess the impact before and after the project implementation

56. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)
150 days of wage employment per year
Work rate for work done by PwDs is 30 % more than the rate of the Rural SSR
Separate works identified and allotted for VSSS groups
Additional Rs. 10 per day towards travel expenses is paid for a distance of upto 5 Kms
If the distance is more than 5 Kms, Rs 20 per person per day is paid along with wages
One District Coordinator is appointed in each district specially for providing wage employment for PWDs

57. Performance of VSSS (2010-11)
No of PwDs provided wage employment: 73,671
Wage expenditure: Cr
No of VSSS groups formed: 3657
No of PWDs covered under VSSS: 31,483

58. Rural SSRs
To facilitate giving minimum wage to the wage seekers, a separate rural standard schedule of rates (SSR) has been evolved after a detailed time-motion study.
SSR is used in MGNREGS (RAGAS) software for generation of work estimates thereby reducing the dependency on the engineers.

59. Drive towards transparency, accountability & empowerment: Social audit

60. Social audit AP pioneered social audit system
SSAAT formed with social activists and hand-picked government officials.
Done through educated youth workers
Once in 6 months in every village
Records obtained using RTI mechanism by the social auditors.
All muster rolls and the all the works are inspected by the social auditors.
The reports of the social audit are read out in the village level in the Gram Sabha
Public hearing at the Mandal - Decisions like booking Criminal cases, returning back misappropriated amount are taken on the spot.

61. Social Audit - Public Hearing

62. Social Audit - Follow up Action (Upto Nov 2011)
Total Amount objected in Social Audit :Rs Cr
Total Amount recovered :Rs 16.6 Cr
Amount dropped :Rs 8.42 Cr.
No. of FTEs(Fixed tenure Employees) Removed : 3228
No. of FTEs suspended : 640
No. of FIRs booked : 95
No. of other removals : 6743

63. Vigilance and flying squads
One retired IAS officer is appointed as Chief Vigilance Officer
Dist Vigilance teams are positioned to strengthen the vigilance and social audit follow up

64. Quality control teams
Appointed a retired Engineer-in-chief as Chief Quality Control Officer
Formed three Q.C engineering divisions in three regions to check quality
133 QC engineers are working in QC wing in the state.
They not only check the quality issues but also build the capacity of Tech Assts and Engineering consultants
Inducted 800 new graduate engineers for technical supervision and check-measurement at mandal level.

65. 24X7 call centre A 24X7 call centre with a toll-free number (155321)
As a complaint is registered, automatic SMS is sent to the officer responsible to rectify and report.
Automatic escalation to the higher levels if appropriate action not taken within stipulated time
18,243 complaints registered, 17,731 complaints redressed and 512 are pending from to till date.
Letter sent to complainant on action taken to get feedback

66. APNGO alliance (APNA) for MGNREGA
To organize the rural poor to demand their rights under the MGNREGA, AP NGO Alliance (APNA) has been formed with 310 NGOs.
The NGOs are given the tasks of organizing the poor into FLGs, training them, overseeing implementation of the programme, observing the social audit system etc.
They also involved in fact-finding missions in areas where there are complaints in execution.
632 Mandals out of 1098 Mandals are brought under this system.
There is a cascading debriefing sessions

67. MGVN Nurseries

68. Trench for Bund Plantation

69. Water conservation pits in Tamarind plantations

70. Horticulture Plantation

71. Stone Bunding

72. Boulder removal

73. Juliflora clearance with stumps removal

74. Pebble Bunding

75. Stone Bunding

76. Deep Ploughing in virgin lands

77. Staggered Trenches

78. TRENCH cum BUND PLANTATION

79. Open Well

80. Rainwater conservation measures
C onservation of the entire
rain water in the field itself
Components include Trench, Conservation furrows, Farm Pond, compost pit , tank silt application.
Rs. 48,000 per acre - MGNREGS
3.19 lakh acres of 1.46 lakh SC/ST farmers
10 lakh acres in

81. Glimpses of CMSA

82. Farm Pond

83. Thank You 83