In Uttarakhand, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was initially launched in 3 districts of the State and another 2 districts have been added for the year 2007-08.
The tally of households demanding employment in the State stood at 1.14 lakh and all of them were provided employment up to February,07. The average number of households provided employment in a district of the State is 37,871, while the national average is 91,685 households. Besides, 100 households completed the 100 days guarantee of employment provided in the Act.
The number of person days of employment provided in the State is 30.05 lakh. The average person days of employment provided in a district is 10.01 lakh compared to the national average of 36.47 lakh person days.
The employment was provided on 6,323 works, out of which 3,075 works have been completed. The average number of works taken up in a district stood at 2,108 against the national average of 3,581.
An amount of Rs. 39.10 crore has been released to the State during 2006-07. Against this, the utlisation up to February,07 is Rs. 38.28 crore, which is 53.93 % of the total availability.
The expenditure on wages is 60.04%, material is 37.90% and on administration is 2.05%. The average expenditure of a district in the State is Rs. 12.76 crore compared to the National average of Rs. 35 crore.
The Act provides that 1/3rd of the employment provided should be to women. In the State 26.86% person days of employment has been provided to women, 25.39% to SC and 1.56% to ST.
A visit to the State by the National Level Monitors in December, 2006 & January 2007 has revealed that water and soil conservation works constitute more than 70% of the work. Moreover, retired Government employees and prominent persons of villages identified as resource person to conduct social audit. Training is provided to them in Gram Sabha..
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