Statesman News Service
MALDA, 5 OCT: The principal secretary of the panchayat and rural development department Mr MN Roy has asked other district officials to follow the Malda model to increase the participation of women labourers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) which has been renamed by the government as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGREGA), after 2 October 2009.
In a recent video conference convened by Mr MN Roy with all districts officials, he asked the additional district programme coordinator (ADPC), Mr Kajal Banerjee about the key point to engage huge number of women labourers in the 100-days job programme.
According to Mr Banerjee, the selection of schemes had planned a key role to bring women labourers in different villages and the labour cost of a particular scheme was on an average 81 per cent where as the material cost was only 19 to 20 per cent in most cases.
The ADPC also explained that mostly male labourer dig out soil but the womenfolk carry the soil. The ratio of labourers engagement was one man, who is digging out soil, is to three women, who are carrying the soil from one place to another for construction of a road.
The ADPC Mr Kajal Banerjee is also the additional executive officer of the Malda Zilla Parishad, said that at present the Malda district had been able to provide an average of 27 days of work to a family out of the 100-days where the state average is only 21 days.
To increase the average 100-days job , the district has planned to implement MGREGA following the new system where the 100-days programme will be implemented in private property belong to small and marginal farmers.
Small farmers (who have 7 acres land) and marginal farmers (who have 3 acres land) can easily seek help from the government for excavation, re-excavation, developing orchards in their lands through MGREGA.
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