MGNREGA/SCHEMES REQUIRES PEOPLE ACCESS RELATED TO GOVERNANCE AS WRONG IMPLEMENTATION OF LAW CODE MANUAL COULD NOT ACCEPTED AS A PRACTICE OF DEPARTMENT .

The department of rural development and panchayati raj taking no vision of role required to be done by the various stakeholders working in the MGNREGA and schemes for which it is requested to have training and workshop on the captioned subject of National rural employment guarantee scheme and parameters related to above scheme and Act how this Scheme works, so that people of area and communities may take benefits of the MGNREGA. All the institutions that exist in the village must create awareness among the people about the National Employment Guarantee Act /Scheme.They must encourage all those who seek continues employment and see it that they apply and get job cards. They should work towards ensuring that such job card holders get work within 15 days of applying for employment. The programme officers are responsible to sanction the amount of the wages in favor of each worker. All must be aware about the work done by the scheme and Act and there should be no compromise, the rights of workers and facilities provided by the scheme to be made under the MGNREGA. The panchayat Secretary is responsible to maintain the Muster rolls and other important registers related to the material and stock available at the site and make them available for social audit. It has been observed during the course of RTI and undertaking social audit process that complete informations are not provided by the Panchayat Secretary responsible for the maintaining of documentary evidences where in these records and all the relevant registers should be accessible to Gram Sabha. As far MGNREGA is concerned the onus of providing information rests on the following officials, the programme officers at the Block levels and panchayat Secretary at village levels and the District project coordinator (ADM-cum - project Director) acts as the information officer in the district under the MGNREGA. The Secretary Gram panchayat too responsible to maintain Complaint register in addition to other requisition register for employment guarantee job cards, expenditure register etc etc. Keeping in view the above documentary evidences there is no reason to deny any information related to the social audit of MGNREGA but it is a general complaint that the panchayat Secretaries are not providing accurate and complete informations to the information seekers for which the district administration and the concerned BDOs are responsible to develop and organise educational programmes to advance the understanding of the public and also train their working staff and provide them relevant training materials for use by the public authorities so that objective of making the governance more transparent and accountable be made fruitful with effective implementation of the MGNREGA, where construction agencies and the Gram panchayats are reluctant to follow this objective of the RTI and taking no cognisance of the accuracy, correctness and timely action on the RTI and the RTS act adjudication and people suffering because of their delay and dereliction of duty in the interest of general public:--Er Fateh Chand Guleria, RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD 3552 Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number 9459334377