ROLE OF VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS IN MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEMES AND ACT FOR THE EMPLOYMENT

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Act for the village community people working for the rural areas of the country and doing needful under the provision made for implementation and completion of the works under the schemes for development and livelihood of the households registered itself with the panchayat for employment. All the institutions that exist in the village must create awareness among the people about the National Employment Guarantee Act/scheme by taking to them about it . They must encourage all those who seek continuous 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. They must help towards seeing that all the wage seekers open post office accounts/bank accounts. After the wages have been sanctioned by the programme officer, they must inform the workers in a manner that they may receive their wages. They must create complete awareness regarding those components on which there can be no compromise, the rights of workers, labourers, facilities, due to them. Further it is submitted in the matter that the Panchayat Secretary is responsible to accept job card applications and give a receipt for them. Job cards must be issued within 15 days. Should send the job card application to the programme officer after accepting the application and issuing a receipt for it. Workers should be paid their wages every fortnight. Should maintain the Muster rolls and other important registers and make them available at the Panchayat for Social Audit. During the course of work on the scheme under proposal it is duty of the Technical Assistant to prepare the estimates of the works and examine the works and make it measured, ensuring that the quality of work is good and work has been done as per the specifications of the description made for the estimated cost. It is also necessary for the Technical assistant to provide technical assistance to the labour and also to check and measure all the works that are being carried out during the course of period specified for the payment of the labour employed on the Muster roll :-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377