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Report No. 7 of 2013 - Performance Audit on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme of Government of Karnataka

Date on which Report Tabled:

Tue 30 Jul, 2013

Date of sending the report to Government

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Overview

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified and enacted in the year 2005 with the objective of enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every registered household whose adult members volunteered to do unskilled manual work. The Act initially came into force in five districts of the State with effect from 2 February' 2006 and was expanded to cover all the districts by 1 April 2008. According to the Act, rural households have a right to register themselves with the local Gram Panchayats, and seek employment. Work is to be provided within 15 days from the date of demand, failing which the State Government will have to pay unemployment allowance at the stipulated rates.

This is the second performance audit of the Scheme. The first performance audit was undertaken in 2007-08 and covered the period from February 2006 to March 2007. The present performance audit covered the period from April 2007 to March 2012. Implementation of the Scheme was checked in 157 Gram Panchayats in eight districts of the State.
The performance audit showed the following deficiencies:

Analysis of the data related to the Scheme showed that there has been significant decline in the number of households who demanded employment and persondays generated in the last two years. The number of households who demanded employment had declined from 36.26 lakh in 2009-10 to 16.64 lakh in 2011-12. During the same period the persondays generated declined from 20.04 crore to 7.00 crore. The share of both Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) showed a declining trend, with the share of STs declining from 19 to 8 per cent and that of SCs from 30 to 16 per cent during the period from 2007-08 to 2011-12.

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