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Yellow Group

Group leader- Manish Tiwari

Typer- Raj / Manish

Editor- Manish / Raj

Group Members-

Manish

Raj

Niharika Guided by- Jyoti madam

Ashutosh

Kamini

Seema

Bharti

k.Deepak

Sujit

shalini

Nitish

National Food For Work programme

objective

The objective of the programme is to provide additional resources apart from the resources available under Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana [SGRY] to 150 most backward districts

of the country so that generation of supplementary wage employment and

providing of food security through creation of need based economic ,social and community

assets in these districts.

Criteria for selecting 150 districts

The Planning Commission identified 150 most backward districts of the country on the basis of prevalence of poverty indicated by SC/ST population, agricultural productivity per worker and agricultural wage rate. Most of them happen to be tribal districts. There is a need for substantial additional investment in these districts to convert their surplus labour into required capital formation solving livelihood issues.

Funding

This programme is a 100% centrally sponsored scheme . Food grains are provided to state free of cost. The transportation cost , handling charge , and taxes of food grains are borne by states.

Funding pattern

NFFWP FUND FROM {Government of India}

District collector

MDO

Gram panchayat

Eligibility criteria for the individuals

1. Open to all rural poor of adult hood [above 14 years] who are in need of wage employment

2. People need not be skilled in any particular trade or craft

3. The types of works in which people can get wage earning work are

I. Trenching workII. Digging worksIII. Silting worksIV. Road laying work etc.

Program strategy

i)   Collector will be the Nodal Officer at the district level and overall responsibility of planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and supervision will be that of the Collector of the District. 

ii) Sarpanch of gram panchayat , village secretary conducts meeting with participation of villagers in gramsabha to identify the necessary works to be done in the village.

iii) wage seekers are identified in gram sabha .iv) once the works and wage seekers are identified the

proposals are sent to district level for the allocation of funds, funds are released to Mandal level from there to concerned grama panchayats.

States from where 150 districts belong to

I Andra pradesh8 X Jharkhand 14 XIX Odisha

18II Arunchal pradesh

1 XI Karnataka 3 XX Punjab1

III Assam5 XII Kerla 1 XXI Rajasthan

5IV Bihar

15 XII Madhya pradesh 15 XXII Sikkim

1V Chattisgarh

10 XIV Mizoram 1 XXIII Tamil nadu4

VI Gujrat6 XV Maharastra 11 XXIV Tripura

1VII Haryana

1 XVI Manipur 1 XXV Uttranchal2

VIII Himanchal pradesh1 XVII Nagaland 1 XXVI Uttar pradesh

15IX Jammu & kashmir

2 XVIII Meghalaya 1 XXVII West bengal 6

Wages under programme

1. The wages under the NFFWP shall normally be paid partly in foodgrains and partly in cash.

2. The wages to be paid under the NFFWP both for skilled and unskilled labour shall not be less than the minimum wages fixed by the State Government under the relevant Statute for agricultural labours as applicable to the rural areas.

3. Equal wages shall be paid under the programme to both men and women workers.

4. Payment of wages shall be made on a fixed day in a week preferably a day before the local market day. 

5. In case the executing Agencies do not pay the wages for a category of employment at the rate notified for the relevant schedule of employment under the relevant Statute, the District Panchayat/Intermediate Panchayat shall withhold further release of funds to that implementing agency and inform the fact to the concerned authority for suitable action against the erring official under the relevant Statute and also inform the Central Government.

6. Where the Central Government finds that the above provisions are not being followed, it may withhold further release of resources under the programme to the District concerned.

Focus of the programme

The programme will focus on water conversation, drought-proofing and land development as a first priority . Flood control measures , rural connectivity in terms of all weather roads and other productive works for insuring economic sustainability may also be included depending upon local needs.

Records for assets created

Each District shall maintain complete inventory of the assets created under the programme giving details of the date of the start and the date of completion of the project, cost involved, benefits obtained, employment generated and other relevant particulars. 

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