Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Today's judgment and Social Audit in NREGA

Justice sodhi reacting on ‘matoo case judgment ‘today said that “ aaj kal criminals ki to aaish hi aaish hai jail mai . “ today Priadarshini matoo case was heard at supreme court and the death sentence to Santosh Singh  is changed into life imprisonment. Media reports says Santosh had raped 22year old Priadarshini ,who was alone at home ,after first beating her with his motorcycle helmet .He then strangled her with an electric wire .Isn’t it brutal by a law student  to a law student and the highest court of justice had changed the death verdict to life imprisonment !
Previously on 19 April 2010 supreme court had upheld the punishment given to Manu Sharma for murdering model Jessica lall in 1999.

Mathama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005

The social audit of NREGA at bhilwara,rampant corruption and irregularities were found over one crore rupees.Panchayats of Titodi ,Tasvariya,Para,Devariya ect.were in question . The social audit was largest of its since enactment of the NREGA in year 2005 with about 1800 people ,organized by the government of Rajasthan for the audit with Magsaysay award winner Aruna Roy of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan ,teams undertook a ‘Padyatra’ covering more than 381 Gram panchayats comprising of 1600 villages and 900 NREGA work sites were addressed during the audit..
On 20 june2007 the presentation in front of the prime minister of India reveled certain facts related to nregas
The demand of employment is met under this scheme while 2.12 crore households employment was demanded whereas 2.10 crore households employment was provided through NREGA in whole country out of which 61.77percent share is of scheduled castes and tribes.
At least one third of the beneficiaries shall be women who have registered and requested for work under the scheme .
From the total of 8812crores of rupees 33.8 percent is gone in material and contingency and rest rupees 5834.21 crores for wages which is a major share .In the work done under NREGAS highest priority is given to water conservation (54%) ,then 10% of work done under NREGAS for provision of irrigation facility to land owned by scheduled tribe and scheduled castes,21% for rural connectivity ,eleven percent for land development and rest 4   percent of work done under the scheme for other activity.

The government of India is trying for betterment under this scheme .The insurance of a NREGAS worker is Rs25000 of death on work site right now, discussion are on with L.I.C. for whole family insurance in such event. Also the government is trying to double the time span for a NREGAS worker from 100 days guarantee work to 200 days of work .