CONVERGENCE IN MAHATMA GANDHI

NREGA

STATE LEVEL WORKSHOP

ON CONVERGENCEKOLKATA, 5 FEBRUARY

2014

WHAT IS CONVERGENCE IN MGNREGA ?

• MGNREGA has workforce in the form of registered wage-seekers

• It also has financial resources

• It seeks participation of other Departments/ Programs with their

Labor intensive programs having scope of livelihood generation/ development of infrastructure conducive to livelihood

Technical expertise• Pooled finance

WHAT KIND OF CONVERGENCE ?

• With financial resources• With technical expertise• As Program Implementing

Agency (PIA)• Pre-implementation convergence• (Where other program support ends,

MGNREGA support begins)• During program convergence• (both the programs run

simultaneously)• Post-program convergence• (MGNREGA ends, other program

takes over)

THE MANDATE• In terms of expenditure, not less

than 20 percent of financial resources in MGNREGS in a year will be utilized for works taken up in convergence

• Focus of convergence will be on development of assets capable of enhancing livelihood• A part of the works will generate direct asset at the household level for ST/ SC/ BPL households and beneficiaries of IAY and Land Reforms There will be a ‘nodal officer for

convergence’ in each of the converging departments

THREE MAJOR AREAS OF CONVERGENCE

Intra-departmen

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Inter-Departmen

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Village level

Convergence

AREAS OF CONVERGENCE

NRLM NBA

PMGSY

IAY

WITHIN P&RDD

BRGFFC

GRANTS

NSAP CADP

WITHIN P&RDD

OSRISGPP

AREAS OF CONVERGENCE

AGRICULTURE

FPI & HORTI

IRRIGATION WRD

WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS

FOREST ARD

SOCIAL WELFARE

& CD

SPORTS & YOUTH

WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS

COMMERCE &

INDUSTRIES

FOOD & SUPPLIES

FISHERIES

SUNDERBANS/ PASCHIMACHANCH

ALUTTARBANGA

NBA-MGNREGS CONVERGENCE

IHHL• Both the programs financially contribute• Rs.4600.00 from NBA• Rs.4500 from MGNREGS• Rs.900.00 beneficiary contribution

AWC Toilets• Either NBA or MGNREGS contribute• Sanctioned cost is Rs.8000.00 only (from

NBA)• Estimated at Rs.25000.00 • Department of CD may contribute Rs.

17000.00

PMGSY-MGNREGS CONVERGENCE

Pre-PMGSY• Earthwork identified PMGSY roads

prior to tender • As per PMGSY specifications• Preferably by the same set of

engineersPost-PMGSY

• Plantation on the road fringes• Water harvesting structures beneath

the culverts• Farm Road Network (FARMNET)• Maintenance of PMGSY roads in

project mode

CONVERGENCE WITH NRLM

PROCESS RELATED CONVERGENCE• Involving SHGs and their Clusters and

Federations in planning, implementation, monitoring and supervision

• Supervisors mostly from the SHGs• Special focus on women person-daysNRLM-MGNREGS Convergence and the CFT

Strategy• Working with CSO for planning, capacity

building, monitoring and supervision• SHG Clusters and Federations as CBO• Intensive planning• Enhanced women participation

CONVERGENCE WITH CADC• CADC under the Comprehensive Area

Development Program has its farms and expertise, especially in nursery raising, plantation related activities

• CADC can work in convergence with MGNREGS by sharing its expertise in these spheres

• It may also act as the PIA and raise nurseries on its own land and also through capacity building of the SHGs

• Any innovative project where resource sharing is proposed is welcome for convergence

CONVERGENCE WITH OTHER PROGRAMS OF THE P&RD

DEPARTMENT• BRGF/ Fund for Backward villages/FC

Grants/ Fund received under ISGPP/ Own Resources of the Panchayats may be pooled for meeting capital cost of MGNREGS

• In IAY, Rs.12,000.00 / Rs.12,500.00 worth of unskilled wages may be added to the approved cost of construction of houses

• This can also be utilized for any other rural housing program

• All Widow pension receiving families may be provided with 100 days of work under MGNREGS as a mandatory guarantee

CONVERGENCE WITH AGRICULTURE

• In identified watershed areas, Agriculture Department may prepare intervention plan synchronized with MGNREGS

• Any labor intensive work, on land owned by the ST/SC/BPL families and the beneficiaries of Land Reforms and IAY may be planned from MGNREGS

• In common property resources within watershed, MGNREGS support is possible

• All other works may be taken up under Watershed program, thereby pulling resources of both the programs

• Compost pits, azola cultivation, vermin composting to enhance productivity may be planned by the Agriculture Deptt

• Different work in the agriculture farms (Department-owned) may also be taken up with MGNREGS support

CONVERGENCE WITH ARD• Goat shelter• Poultry• Cattle-shed• Azola cultivation• Vermin compost• Pucca floor on cattle-shed, urine tanks,

fodder trough• Different work in the ARD Farms

CONVERGENCE WITH FISHERIES• Technical guidance on farm ponds• Pisciculture in farm ponds• Work in public tanks

CONVERGENCE WITH HORTICULTURE• Orchards development• Land for floriculture• Green houses• Poly houses• Land development for horticulture

including vegetable gardens, nurseries• Irrigation sources for the orchards,

gardens and nurseries• Micro irrigation• Special initiatives under the Directorate

of Cinchona & Other Medicinal Plants

CONVERGENCE WITH FOREST• In core forest area• In forest fringe area• In social forestry divisions

• Digging of trenches• Development of water-bodies• Nurseries• Plantation• Vegetative fences• Watershed-based development

activities in forest areas

CONVERGENCE WITH WRI & DEVELOPMENT

• ‘Jal Dharo Jal Bharo’ program• ‘Farm ponds’ with pucca banks and irrigation

systems where the labor component will come from MGNREGS and the Department will provide material and technical skill

CONVERGENCE WITH IRRIGATION & WATERWAYS

• Embankment strengthening• Vetivar plantation• Larger irrigation projects

Irrigation Dept. may provide for machines and transportation, MGNREGS may provide labor

CONVERGENCE WITH PHED

• Soak pits/ recharge pits for water• Platforms for tube-wells• Solid & Liquid waste management

CONVERGENCE WITH YOUTH & SPORTS

• Development of play grounds

CONVERGENCE WITH FOOD & SUPPLIES

• Storage structures for food grains

CONVERGENCE WITH COMMERCE & INDUSTRIES AND MSME

• Work in Tea Gardens• Work in rubber plantations• Sericulture

CONVERGENCE WITH SOCIAL WELFARE & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

• Construction of AWC• AWC toilets• Development of play grounds of AWC• Orchards on AWC land (where available)• Support to the families of the victims of

trafficking

VILLAGE LEVEL CONVERGENCE

Convergence through Habitation-based Planning

Gram Sansad (Ward level)

Panchayats

Civil Society Organizations/ NGOs Community-based Organizations/ SHG FederationsRepresentatives of different line Departments

OUR SUBMISSION• Convergence must be both-ways-

• Not merely taking MGNREGS fund and running departmental activities

• But pooled resources• Fund• Technical expertise• Supervisory support

• Issues related to MIS, e-Musters, e-FMS are to be tackled as we go along

• Convergence is a way of life• It is the key to the success of

livelihood generation for the poor under MGNREGA

Thanks