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Whereas, the Government of India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (Central Act No.42 of 2005). This Act gives legal guarantee of at least one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled and manual work. The Act is applicable in the Districts notified by the Government of India.

And whereas, the objective of the Act is to enhance the livelihood security of the people in rural areas by generating wage employment. The choice of works suggested addresses causes of chronic poverty like drought, deforestation and soil erosion. Effectively implemented, the employment generated under the Act has the potential to transform the geography of rural poverty.

And whereas the implementation of the Act calls for the formulation of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by the State Governments. The Scheme so formulated would have to provide for the minimum features specified in Schedule I of the Act and may prescribe conditions, which are without prejudice to the conditions specified in Schedule II of the Act. Accordingly, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has formulated the Scheme called Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to provide not less than one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household in rural areas covered under the Scheme and whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work subject to the conditions stipulated in the Act and notified in the Scheme.

Short Title and Commencement and extent :
(1) This scheme may be called the Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.(APREGS)
(2) This Scheme shall come into force with effect from 2nd February 2006 in the rural areas of the following 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh namely; (1)Adilabad, (2) Karimnagar, (3) Nizamabad, (4) Medak, (5)Mahabubnagar, (6) Ranga Reddy, (7) Khammam, (8) Nalgonda, (9) Warangal, (10) Anantapur, (11) Kadapa, (12) Chittoor and (13) Vizianagaram.

Objectives :
The Andhra Pradesh Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme shall have the following objectives:
(1) The primary objective of the Scheme is to provide livelihood security to the households in rural areas of the aforesaid 13 (thirteen) notified districts by providing not less than 100 (one hundred) days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household, whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled and manual work.
(2) Creation of durable assets and strengthening the livelihood resource base of rural poor.

Funding :
The Scheme shall be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) on cost sharing basis between the Centre and the State in the ratio of 90:10.

Non-Negotiable :
(1) Every registered rural household shall be provided not less than 100 days of wage employment, on demand, in a financial year.
(2) Payment of wages shall be made at least once in a fortnight.
(3) Equal wages shall be paid to men and women.
(4) Contractors and labour displacing machinery shall not be engaged.
(5) Only works approved by the Gram Panchayat (identified in the Gram Sabha) at village level, the Mandal Parishad at Mandal level and the Zilla Parishad at District level shall be taken up.

Rights and Entitlements :
(1) Every adult member whose name appears in the Job Card shall be entitled to apply for unskilled manual work.

(2) All persons belonging to a household and registered shall be entitled to employment under the Scheme for as many days as each applicant may request, subject to a maximum of one hundred days per household in a given financial year.

(3) If an applicant is not provided with such employment within fifteen days of receipt of his/ her application seeking employment or from the date on which the employment has been sought in the case of an advance application whichever is later, he/ she shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance subject to the entitlement of the household at the rate which shall not be less than one fourth of the wage rate for the first 30 (thirty) days of the financial year and not less than one half of the wage rate for the remaining period of financial year .

(4) As far as possible the applicant shall be provided work within the village. If an applicant is provided employment outside a radius of five kilometers of the village where he/ she resides at the time of applying he/ she should be paid an extra 10% of the prevailing wage rate to meet additional transportation and living expenses.

(5) Priority shall be given to women in such a way that at least one-third of the wage seekers shall be women who have registered and requested for work.

(6) In case the payment of wages is not made within a fortnight, the workers shall be entitled to receive payment of compensation as per the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act 1936(4 of 1936).

(7) There shall be no discrimination solely on the ground of gender and the provisions of the Equal Remuneration Act. 1976 (25 of 1976) shall be complied with.

(8) Workers are entitled for work site facilities like safe drinking water, shade for children and periods of rest, first-aid box with adequate material for emergency treatment of minor injuries and other health hazards connected with the work.

(9) If the number of children below the age of six years accompanying the women, working at any site is five or more, one woman worker shall be engaged to look after the children and she shall be paid wage rate.

(10) Any injury caused to a person employed under the Scheme by accident arising out of and in the course of his/her employment, such person is entitled to medical treatment free of charge.

(11) Where hospitalization of the injured worker at the worksite is necessary, such arrangements shall be made including accommodation, treatment and medicines. The injured worker shall be paid a daily allowance not less than half of the wage rate required to be paid had the injured been engaged in the work.

(12) If the person employed dies or becomes permanently disabled by accident arising out of and in the course of employment, he/ she shall be paid an ex-gratia at the rate of Rs. 25,000 or such amount as may be notified by the Central Government, and the amount shall be paid to the disabled or legal heirs of the deceased, as the case may be.

(13) Any personal injury caused by accident to a child accompanying any person employed under the Scheme, such person is entitled to free of charge medical treatment for the child and in case of death or disablement, an ex-gratia as determined by the Government.

Registration and issuance of Job Card :
(1) Any adult person of a household may on behalf of the members of the household apply to the Gram Panchayat, in the jurisdiction of which they reside, for registration of their household for issuance of a Job Card. The application can be in a printed form (Form 1) or on a plain paper containing the names of the adult members, their age, social status and address of the household. The Panchayat Secretary shall receive applications and issue dated receipt and enter the details in the Employment Guarantee Scheme Registration and Job Card Register (Form 2). After that, he/she shall make due enquiry and issue the Job Card.

(2) A Job Card (Form 3) with unique ID number will be issued by the Gram Panchayat to the household that has been registered. The Panchayat Secretary shall also maintain these details in the ‘Employment Guarantee Scheme Job Card Register’. The joint photograph of the adult members of the household must be affixed to the Job Card within three months from the date of issue of the Job Card.

(3) The Panchayat Secretary shall update the household Job Card at the time of payment of wages. The wage-days provided and the wages paid to the workers shall be reflected in the Job Card and the Employment Register.

(4) Addition or deletion of members eligible to seek work shall be carried out in the Job Card as and when required or at the beginning of the financial year. The updated list shall be sent to the Program Officer.

(5) A cardholder may apply to the Gram Panchayat for a duplicate card if the original card is lost or damaged. The Panchayat Secretary shall verify the case and issue a duplicate card within seven working days of receipt of the application.

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When will wages be paid?

Wages are to be paid every week, or in any case ‘not later than a fortnight after the date on which such work was done’. A proportion of the wages in cash may be paid on a daily basis.

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Job card NO:101433812009050016

S.Munilakshmma
odulapate village,
charala post,
chowdepalli mandalam
chittoor

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My name is N.Yogiah. I am living in the rural area of Andhra Pradesh. What is the eligibility to get job under this scheme? Please let me know.

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We are Jana Chetana NGO, Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh. We are already registered in APNA. But still not show our NGO name as NGOs list in our district. We try to re-registration the same process, but it will not entered. One message shows as Jana Chetana already registered. How we find our NGO name in APNA and how we will registered the same?