Lecture notes

1. (NREP),
Rural landless Employment Guarantee
Programme (RLEGP), Drought Prone
Area Programme (DPAP),
Command Area Development Programme
(CADP),
Food for Work Programme (FFW),
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY),
Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS).

2. •
The National Rural Employment
programme (NREP) was launched in
October, 1980
became a regular Plan programme
from April, 1981
and
Rural Landless Employment
Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) was
introduced on August 15, 1983,

3. Objectives
1. Improving and expanding employment
opportunities for the rural landless with a
view to providing guarantee of
employment to at least one member of
every landless household up to 100 days
in a year and
2. Creating durable assets for

4. •with cost sharing basis of 80:20 between the central
and the State.
•Implemented through village panchayats, basically
aimed at
•providing supplementary gainful employment to at
NREP and RLEGP were merged on
April, 1, 1989 to form the Jawahar
Rozgar Yojana (JRY)

5. •Report of the Prof. S. R. Hashim Committee and
discussion with the State Governments, it was
decided to restructure and streamline Jawahar
Rozgar Yojana.
•It was felt that the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana should
be implemented only at the village level to create
village infrastructure.
•JRY as Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)

6. Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS)
•The main objective of the EAS is to provide about
100 days of assured casual manual employment
during
• National Rural Employment Programme (NREP),
• Rural landless Employment Guarantee Programme
(RLEGP),
• Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP), Command
Area Development Programme (CADP),
• Food for Work Programme (FFW), Jawahar Rozgar
Yojana (JRY), Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS),
the lean agricultural season, at statutory minimum wages
to all persons above the age of 18 years and below 60
years who need and seek employment on economically
productive and labour intensive social and community

7. Employment Assurance
Scheme (EAS)
(additional wage
employment Scheme )
Jawahar Gram Samridhi
Yojana (JGSY)
(rural infrastructure
development Scheme)
, merged the
launched the new Scheme as
Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana(SGRY)
w.e.f 25th September, 2001

8. •NREGA was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) on 2 October 2009
and is
Implemented throughout the country in the name
of 100 Days employment programme in
common parlance.

9. Provisions under NREGA
Adult members of a rural household, willing to do
unskilled manual work, are required to make
registration in writing or orally to the local Gram
Panchayat.
The Gram Panchayat will issue a Job Card.
The Job Card should be issued within 15 days of
application.
Work should be provided within 5 km radius of the
village.

10. wages has to be done on weekly basis and not
beyond a fortnight in any case.
 At least one-third beneficiaries shall be
women who have registered and requested work
under the scheme.
Work site facilities such as drinking water,
shade have to be provided
The project for a village will be recommended

11. At least 50% of works will be allotted to Gram
Panchayats for execution
Permissible works predominantly include water
and soil conservation, afforestation and land
development works
 No contractors and machinery is allowed
The Central Govt. bears the 100 percent wage
cost of unskilled manual labour.

12. Drought Prone Areas Programme: 1970-71

13. •DPAP is a centrally shared programme
launched in 1973-74
•to tackle the special problems faced by
those areas which are prone to and are
constantly affected by severe drought
conditions.

14. The objectives
•To minimize the adverse effects of drought on
the production of crops and livestock and
productivity of land, water and human
resources thereby ultimately leading to
‘drought proofing’ of the affected areas,

15. Command Area Development Programme (CADP)

16. The Command Area Development Programme
CADP is implemented by the Agricultural
Engineering Department basically to ensure
improved agricultural activities with efficient water
management
to enable easy and convenient distribution of
water below the sluices to the farm holding in the river
commands.
This programme is a centrally sponsored
programme

17. The Agricultural Engineering Department has been
implementing the programme in
• Cauvery Command
• Lower Bhavani Project, Parambikulam Aliyar Project,
Amaravathy Reservoir Project, Kodaiyar Chittar
Pattanamkal Project,
Cumbum Valley Project, Periyar Vaigai Project,

18. •During the Ninth Five Year Plan period,
the Government of India approved three
new projects namely
•Krishnagiri Reservoir Project,
•Thoppaiyar Project and
•Palar Porandalar Project.

19. Food for Work Programe
(FFW)

20.  The Program was introduced in 1977-78
The Program was for manual unskilled labor
implemented with the assistance of the Central
Government by supplying free food grains.
 done by the Planning Commission in
consultation with the
Ministry of Rural Development
along with

21. •In 2006 the Food for Work Programme
got merged with
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act
Objectives
The primary objective was to save the
lives of the poor by giving them food