HUMAN DIGNITY THROUGH
HUMAN RIGHTS! (MONITORING FOOD
SECURITY (MFS)
RIGHTS IS
THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME POVERTY WITH DIGNITY: MGNREGA AND FOOD SECURITY
I.
Young India Project and
Praxis
A. Young India Project
1.
Young India Project was
registered on 9th Sept 1970 under Karnataka Society’s Act in
Bangalore.
2.
Number: 139/1970
3.
4.
Current Governing council
members: President: Mr. N.S.Bedi. Secretary: Ganesh Iyer. Treasurer: Krishnamurthy. Members: Fairoz, Kishore, Arun Ganguly , General Body: 55 members who have worked with or are working with YIP currently. Address:
Young India Project, Penukonda 515110, Andhra Pradesh.
5.
Principal involvement: MGNREGA in
partnership with the Govt of Andhra.Pradesh.
6.
Area of work: 20 mandals in
Anantapur Dist. and 5 mandals in Kadapa Dist. The Govt has offered YIP 6 more
mandals.
7.
Families covered: There are on
an average 4500 Job Card Holders’ families ( JCHF ) registered to work in MGNREGA in each mandal. We are therefore
working with 4500 x 25 mandals = 112,500
MGNREGA families.
8.
Benefits received by Job Card
holders Families: From April 1, 2014 to
December 2015: 50.25 days of
work per family @ Rs 110 per day. This
means = 1,12,500 (families) x50.25 x Rs 110 = Rs. 64,65,93,750.00 (Sixty four crores,
sixty five lakhs, ninety three thousand seven hundred and fifty only).
9.
Rights Benefits: there are
other benefits which cannot be measured:
i.
Receiving Job Cards,
ii.
Submission of demands with
follow up,
iii.
Selection of works,
iv.
Demanding and obtaining from
the Govt to provide 4 worksite entitlements,
v.
Release of wages in time,
vi.
Compensations for injury and
death during work, and finally
vii.
Resolution of work related
problems.
1 Present Funding situation of
Young India Project: YIP does not receive any funds from any organization or
government. The government directly pays 50 YIP MGNREGA
workers, known as Community Resource persons (CRP). (2 CRPs per mandal, for 25
mandals that YIP covers, at rate of Rs. 3500/ per worker per month.)
B. PRAXIS:
Praxis is a
registered society, registered on 8th May 1980, under Karnataka
Societies Registration Act 1960.
Registration
number: 87/80-81
Praxis is also
registered with the home ministry under Foreign Contribution (Regulation)Act
1976 on 13/12/1984. Registered no is 094420120.
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PROGRAMMES OF PRAXIS:
o PRAXIS
organizes sanghas (community based organizations) among the poor and among
women.
o Praxis gives
ongoing education through weekly meetings of the people’s organizations at
village level.
o Campaign for
land right for the landless and conduct struggles for land of the dalits
unlawfully taken awy from them by the landlords.
o Fight against
atrocities committed against women and dalits.
o Encourages
savings among women through BCOs.
o Gives micro
credits to members of BCOs to take up income generation activities.
o Gives support
for the education of children from the poor by organizing supplementary
education, providing books and uniform to ensure quality education to the
children.
o To assist in
developing infrastructure in the government schools.
o To give
employment oriented vocational training to the youth, especially women.
i. Computer aided
secretarial course.
ii. Tailoring
training.
iii. Entrepreneurship
training.
o 6. Health and
sanitation
o Educating
people specially women on health and sanitation.
o Care of under
five children and women at risk.
o Developing
sanitary system in the villages.
o To protect
and develop environment through aforestation programme.
o To conserve
water and soil through watershed programme.
o Watershed and
environment
o Rehabilitation
of percolation tanks.
o Developing
feeder channels for rain water harvesting.
o Making
contour bunds to prevent soil erosion and conserving soil moisture.
I.
BACK GROUND FOR THE PROPOSAL:
YIP started
working in Penukonda in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Anantapur and Penukonda, in particular, is a
driest region of Rayalsimha area of Andhra Pradesh. The rain fall has been very scanty and there
would be continuous droughts in the region.
This also means that there are no tanks or rivulets passing through this
region. Some places there are small
streams. But these are dry for most part
of the year. There was no irrigation
possible to cultivate the lands.
Whenever there was a little rain the farmers tried to grow millets. There were no farmers who would grow enough
food to last even for three to six months.
There was no work available for the people in the area. They had to migrate to the faraway places
either in Andhra Pradesh (to the cities like Hyderabad) or to the neighbouring
Karnataka (Bangalore). This had great
impact on the condition of women.
Education of children affected tremendously.
After the
initial survey of the place we decided to work in this as our intervention was
most needed here. We tried to work with
all the people as poverty was most widespread.
Initially we tried to develop rain harvesting systems by building check
dams and water sheds where ever we found small streams. We tried to get help from the government
agriculture department to promote dry land farming. The nature was stubborn and the rains gods
were non yielding. We realized our dry
land development programmes made no impact on agriculture and on the economic
condition of the people.
After
experiencing failures in our dry land farming programmes from 1983 onwards YOUNG
INDIA POJECT decided to change its strategy.
In 1983 when we started land
struggles under various land reform acts, our investigations revealed that
there were thousands of acres of Govt
shotriamdar, or lands declared surplus under land ceiling act which were
being cultivated by landless families, but
were registered under the names of the bigger land owners and their
friends and relatives, illegally. The land reform acts which made cultivators
into owners of land had been legislated years earlier but the poor had not been
able to enforce the rights given by the acts. Why not? Because
a. They did not know the act and therefore did not know what to do to
enforce their rights. b. They were not organised to challenge the land owners
on whose names the lands were registered c. they did not have the confidence to
talk with the Govt officials. The situation remained unchanged until YIP
intervened in 1983. The reason why YIP intervened was many landless peasants
approached us because they were not able to get bank loans against their lands.
When we asked them why, they answered that though they were the cultivators the
owners were rich landowners and their friends, and therefore being non owners
they did not have the right to mortgage their lands to the bank. The very first struggle we took up was for
1500 acres of Govt. land being cultivated by 600 poor families from 5 villages
which had been illegally registered on the names of well off non cultivators.
We organised the families into five village unions, informed them about their
rights and guided them to start their struggle. It took 7 years to get all the
600 families their land title deeds for a total of 1,500 acres. Once they
received their papers our involvement with them ended, but in the meantime our
cadres were already involved in other land struggles. Between 1983 and 2000 we
helped 42,000 landless families to receive ownership titles to 79,000 acres.
These struggles were against the landlords and the local Govt. officials, but
we had the support of the senior IAS officers who were pro –poor .Had YIP not
intervened 42,000 families would not have got ownership of the lands they were
cultivating.
While we were
taking up land struggles we also started struggles on bonded labour and house
sites given by the Govt. to be registered on the names of women. By 1985 we
were working in two districts and by 1990 in 6 districts. We spread our rights
movement to all our working districts. Between 1985 and 2000 our cadres
identified and assisted 540 bonded
labourers to be released from the clutches of landowners, and 100,000 women
agricultural labourers received house
sites on their names. In each case after the struggle was successful YIP cadres
withdrew and started assisting the poor peasantry to take up other rights
struggles. In the Indian rural context without the mediation of NGOs, the poor
are unable to enforce their own rights
We decided to
squarely put the responsibility of development of these people on the Government. The government had been absent in this area
all these years. Probably it did not
have any answers to the situation of the place and the people.
We realised that
it should be the responsibility of the government to solve the problem of these
people. We decided to organize the people so that they could through their
collective action demand from the government to solve their problems. While trying to organize the people we
identified the following problems people face:
1.
There were several about 25% of
the population who were totally landless and these people keep migrating to distant
places for work. Their condition has
been very precarious.
2.
The second category of the
people among the landless poor was bonded labourers. They did not need to migrate but they were
literally slaves at the houses of the middle farmers. These farmers themselves were living on the
margin. They could not pay sufficient to
these bonded labourers. Malnourishment
was rampant both among the children and the adults.
3.
There were some with very small
land holding. But their lands were taken
away from them by the relatively better land owners. These lands were alienated from them either
because they have given the land to cultivate on share cropping basis or had
mortgaged for small amount of money (loans).
4.
The most common feature among
all the people was they did not have work enough to earn their livelihood.
Based on this information we chalked out
the following plan of action:
·
Release of bonded labourers.
·
Release of land of the poor
farmers from the hands of the land owners.
·
Demanding for land reform so
that the landless and the tenants get land.
·
Demand for house site and
houses under right to shelter. There are
several families live in huts and on common land. They have no house sites and houses.
·
Along with demand for land and
house sites we felt it essential to demand that the house site and the land
that the government should allot to and register in the name of wives / women.
·
To ensure that the poor,
particularly the BPL category will get government programmes like Integrated
Rural development programme. Benefits for women. Programmes for the women and children
welfare.
·
To demand for their
entitlements, such as ration from the fair price shops under the Public
Distribution System, functioning schools and Public Health Centres. Fighting
against atrocities against the dalits and adivasies under Anti Atrocities Act.
·
And above all these demand for
right to work.
In our approach to demand we wanted to make
sure that these demands were not so much for schemes but as rights of the
people. That means people have rights
and getting land, house sites and employment should be considered as legal
obligation on the part of the state to grant these rights. We wanted the government to legislate these
rights. Hence our fight was supposed to
be for constitutional and justitiable rights.
That means people have right to land, houses and employment and the government
has obligation to deliver these rights.
Our overall idea is to ensure that people
have rights and the government comes closer to people. With these intentions we also worked for fair
implementation of Panchayati Raj Act. We
prepared people to fight for panchayat election.
From 1986 we
started our campaign for right to work. There was one state in the country
where right to work was legislated under ‘Employment Guarantee Act’. That state was Maharashtra. We studied how this act was passed, the
context in which the government was compelled to pass this law and the way it was
being implemented. We invited several
economists and sociologists with whom we had discussions. In all through this process we realized that
passing a law by giving the unskilled labourers right to employment was the
first step towards justice and development.
We had built a
network of several NGOs across different states. We had several discussions and study sessions
during the meetings of this network. We
decided to take up the campaign for demanding right to work for the rural
poor. Through our networked with several
NGOs from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana we took up cycle rally across the state
to spread awareness among the rural poor for the need for a law which would
give them the right to work. Along with
cycle rallies, we had organized public meetings and demonstration demanding
work for the poor landless, marginal farmers and all those whose livelihood
depended mainly on wage labour. We had
also started inviting NGOs across the country.
Several NGOs from Maharastra, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,
Orisa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal had joined in the struggle for
Right to Work. We were not fighting for
some schemes that would give relief to the poor wage labourers but a law by
which the people could demand for work and the state would have an obligation
to provide work for them. We had
organized two national level workshops on “Right to Work”. One workshop was organized in Kolkata and one
in Delhi. People like Rath, Madhu
Dandavate, Aditya Mukhergie, Bhipand Chandra and Mridula Mukhargi had been
resource persons for these workshops.
Finally we saw a victory to our long
struggle. NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOMENT
GUARANTEE ACT (MGNREGA) was legislated in 2005. Later this law was renamed as
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
RIGHT
TO WORK AND RIGHT TO FOOD SECURITY ARE RIGHTS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
These are
permanent rights for each family registered to benefit under the act. Therefore
the involvement of NGOs with the right holders is a long time involvement. NGOs have to organise, train the people to
demand and receive those rights. This
will be a long time process.
In the case of
struggle for land, for release and rehabilitation of bonded labour, for house
sites on the name of women and other such basic needs demands, once the
organised families had received lands, or the bonded labourers had been freed,
or the house site pattas had been registered the rights struggle was over and
the NGOs role came to an end.
But this might
not be in the case of right to work, this right has to be exercised every year
because the Act empowers the MGNREGA families to demand and receive 100 days of
work every year. So as long as rural labour need work they will need to
exercise the rights given under MGNREGA. The day rural workers can demand and
receive those rights without the mediation of NGOs the role of the NGOs will
come to an end. But there will always be
the need to campaign and struggle so that the government of the day does not go
back on its commitment and abolish or even dilute this law so that the people
will in reality would be denied of their right to work.
It is not enough to legislate Rights for
the people. These rights should be
enjoyed by the people. Those who have these
rights should get employment and food.
Considering all the experience of corruption at different level in the
bureaucracy and political dispensation it is necessary to monitor the
implementation.
In 2006 M. K. Raju , Principal Secretary,
Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of Andhra
Pradesh (A.P.) asked YIP to conduct the first
social audit on MGNREGA in Anantapur district of A.P. The audit brought
out two issues: frauds in the implementation of NREGA on the one side and on
the other total ignorance among the working families of the rights given to
them under MGNREGA.
In 2008 Mr. K. Raju, then principle
secretary Ministry of Rural Development, asked YIP to educate and organise
unions of MGNREGA job card holders in the 20 mandals of Anantapur district
where we were working. He gave us financial support for giving rights trainings
to Shrama Shakti Samakhya groups. On 22nd September 2009 Mr. Raju along
with all Rural Development Officials of Anantapur district met with 600 leaders
of 20 MGNREGA mandal unions organised by YIP and responded to their rights
based demands. Mr. Raju told the gathering that if MGNREGA is to succeed as a
right based Act then rights training and organisation of the workers is a must.
In 2010 after consulting YIP, Mr. Subramaniam ( the new Principal Secretary Rural
Development) passed a GO 80 forming APNA
(ANDHRA PRADESH NGO ALLIANCE) a GO/NGO
partnership which gave NGOs the responsibilities of:
·
Organising 15 to 25 Shrama
Shakti Samakhya (SSS) groups (one SSS group will have 10 to 15 members)
·
Organizing Gram Panchayat
Samakhya ( GPS )
·
Giving rights trainings to SSS
groups, and
Conducting monthly meetings of
each GPS to solve rights based problems.
The NGOs were asked to appoint two workers
in each mandal to do this work, and the Govt would pay each NGO worker Rs.
3,500 per month through the NGO. YIP has been allotted 25 mandals in Anantapur
by Andhra Pradesh NGOs Alliance (APNA) to form Grama Panchayat Samakhyas (GPS) and
conduct their monthly meetings.
In this initiative on right to food
security which concerns the same families who are working in MGNREGA will be
the focus of our work, and we will work with the GPS already formed by YIP
MGNREGA activists.
3. The OBJECTIVE of the PROPOSAL
·
To train at least two cadres of
each mandal and the women chosen from each GPS to monitor the implementation of
the rights given by MGNREGA.
In 25 mandals of Anantapur District where
YIP cadres, who are being paid by the Government, have already formed MGNREGA GPSs,
the two cadres of each mandal and the women chosen from each GPS to monitor will
be trained on rights given by MGNREGA and Food Security Act (FSA) and they will
be constituted into GPS Food Security Monitoring Committees ( FSMC). The
members of the committees will be taught how to monitor the implementation of FSA
every month and submit their report to their GPS at the MGNREGA GPS monthly meeting
conducted by the two YIP mandal cadres. This will enable the women members of each
GPS formed to ensure that FSA benefits reach the working families of their
village, without dilution. It should be mentioned that MGNREGA job card holders
constitute over 1/3 of each village population.
4. TIME
FRAME
To train and organise GPS FSMC in on an
average of 18 GPs and hamlets per mandal, in 25 mandals, or 18x25 = 450 FSMC it
will take time. With the experience we have acquired in organising MGNREGA
workers into GPS we have the following time frame in mind:
A. IN
THE FIRST YEAR:
·
In the first year of our work
we intend to adopt 5 YIP mandals for training and organising FSMC in 90 GPS of
5 mandals.
§ In each GPS for 15 to 25 SSS groups two leaders (one male and one
female) are elected by each SSS group to represent it in the GPS.
§ For each FSMC 10 women will be selected from among the 15 to 25
women leaders in the GPS on the basis of whether they can read and write and
have monitoring qualities.
§ They will be formed into five groups of two women, and each group
will be assigned one of the five entitlements to monitor for six months.
§ At the end of each six months the responsibilities will be rotated.
§ Our work will include monitoring the performance of the committees
during the first year in order to confirm that the members have learnt how to
monitor.
§ In order to guide them we have developed a training manual and a
monitoring format. These are attached.
B.
SECOND YEAR:
In the second year because of the
experience gained in forming FSMC in the first year, the number of mandals will
be doubled; FSMCs will be formed in ten mandals or 180 GPs.
B. IN THE LAST YEAR:
·
In the last year the formation
of FSMCs in the remaining 10 mandals of YIP will be completed.
·
After the completion of formation
of FSMC in 25 YIP mandals in three years, YIP will make it’s expertise and
services available to other APNA NGOs to form FSMCs in their mandals in
Anantapur district or in any district of A.P. and Telengana.
5. ENTITLEMENTS AND MONITORING
In accordance with the Act the following
five entitlements have been guaranteed:
·
Subsidised PDS rations including
grains, sugar, oil, etc.
·
Mid day meals in Govt.
elementary school and high schools for children of the ages of six to fourteen.
·
For the children from the age
of 6 months to three years the Anganwadis are responsible for providing mid day
meal rations for their mothers. For
children of the ages 3 to 6 the Anganwadis will provide a morning snack and a
hot mid day meal every day except on holidays.
·
Nutritious food for pregnant
and lactating mothers daily and Rs. 6,000 cash support for them from the Govt. First
instalment of Rs. 3000 will be given in the last three months of pregnancy
provided she is registered with the Anganwadi and has been regular in taking
her food and medicinal monthly quota. The last Instalment will be given six
months after delivery provided the birth has been registered with the Anganwadi
and the child has received all required inoculations.
·
Nutritional food for severely
malnourished children will be given daily by the Anganwadis
MONITORING: Each of the above five entitlements will be monitored
in the following way:
I.
PDS rations: for every 300 families in a
village there is a PDS shop. Each shop is required to display the rations received and distributed every
month, FSMC members in charge of PDS will verify the genuineness of the list by
interviewing women beneficiaries at random. They will also inquire whether the
quality of grains being distributed is good. They will also find out whether
any of the grains are being sold by the beneficiary families. All the
information collected will be submitted to the GPS at the monthly meeting.
II.
Mid day meals: In every Govt elementary
school mid day meal has to provide to the children of the age between 6 to 10
years on every school day. MSMC members will make Random visits to the schools
to see whether all the children are receiving mid day meals, and whether the
nutritional value of the meal being given is as per the Act. The same will be
done for high schools for children of the ages 11 to 13/14.
III.
Nutrition to the mothers with lactating children: The Anganwadis are required under the Act. to give a mid day meal ration
to the mothers of all children who are of the ages below 6 months and a nutritional mid day meal daily to all children of the age of 6 months to 6 years.
The FSMC will take count of the number of children who are registered with the
Anganwadi and verify whether all the registered children are receiving mid day
meal. They should also make inquires to find out whether all village children
of ages of 6 months to 6 years are registered
with the Anganwadi , any child not registered should be registered.
IV.
Pregnant women and lactating Mothers: All pregnant women and lactating mothers
should be registered with the Anganwadi and should be receiving one nutritional
meal per day. As explained earlier they should also get Rs. 6000 in two
instalments. All this should be verified. The FSMC members should also verify
whether all pregnant women are registered with the Anganwadi. Those
who are not registered should be registered.
V.
Severely Malnourished children: Finally
each Anganwadi is required to register all severely malnourished children of
age six years and below and give them mid day meals. The FSMC members in charge
of this subject should verify whether all malnourished children in the village
are registered with the Anganwadi and if not the children who are not should be
registered. Every month a report will be given to the GPS at the monthly
meeting.
A. THE FIRST YEAR:
IN ITIATION MEETINGS, TRAININGS AND FOLLOW
UP:
A.
An initiation meeting will be
held with each of the 90 GPS to give them a brief on the Act and the rights
given by the act, and then introduce the idea of monitoring the act by 10 women
selected by them from among the GPS women members. How to undertake monthly
monitoring will also be explained to them. They will be told that by the
following month the selection of the 10 monitors must be completed. 25 such
meetings will be conducted each month for the first three months, in the fourth
month only 15 meetings will need to be conducted.
B.
From the second month onwards apart
from the 25 initiation meetings, monitoring trainings will be conducted for the
first 25 GPS for the 10 FSMC members selected. This will be repeated in the
third month. In the 4th month 25 monitoring trainings will be
conducted but only 15 initiation meetings will need to be held. In the fifth
month 15 monitoring trainings will be held and the work of 15 FSMC will be
monitored.
C.
From the sixth month onwards 25
FSMC will be monitored each month, this will include visiting schools,
anganwadis, PDS, and interviewing pregnant women and lactating mothers in the
presence of FSMC members. A report will be prepared for each visit.
D.
By the end of the first year
the following works will have been completed:
i.
Ninety FSMC would have been
formed;
ii.
900 FSMC members and 10 YIP cadres would have
been trained in the rights given by the Act. and how to monitor those rights;
iii.
Each FSMC would have been
monitored twice during the year and report on each visit shared with the
respective GPS, and the FSMC strengthened.
iv.
From the second year onwards
the FSMCs will function on their own with the guidance of the two YIP mandal
cadres appointed by the Govt of A.P
B. SECOND AND THIRD YEAR:
From the second year onwards
in the first seventh months 180 initiation meetings and 180 monitoring
trainings for 1800 FSMC members will be conducted. In the last 5 months 180
FSMCs will be visited and monitored , which means that only one visit by the
project leader to monitor the performance of each FSMC will take place during the year. This will be
repeated in the third year for the remaining 10 mandals.
PERSONS (WOMEN AND MEN) NEEDED TO IMPLEMEN THIS
PROJECT:
50 YIP mandal
leaders appointed by YIP but paid for by the govt will be needed to continue
supervision of the GPS FSMC once the training and the monitoring under the
project has been completed.
They are already working in the
mandals and are being paid Rs 3,500 per leader per month. The total amount
being received by them is Rs. 175,000 per month. The idea that govt should pay
the NGO workers who monitor MGNREGA was mooted by YIP. Today there are 230 NGOs
working in 425 mandals of the district (total mandals being 625) and their activists
are also being paid by the Govt for monitoring MGNREGA. YIP will pressurise the
Govt to pay additional remuneration to each mandal leader for monitoring right
to food security also.
C.
ADDITIONAL WOMEN POWER NEEDED
1. The leader of the program who will form the
FSMCs, then train the mandal leaders and the members of the FSMCs, and monitor
their performance will be a woman.
Ms. Mamtha will take up the responsibility of
implementing this project. (Ms. Mamtha was an assistant professor in Loyola
college in Chennai. She resigned from
her job in May 2013 and joined YIP. We will need to support her to meet all her
expenses.
2. We will need a woman assistant who will
assist her in her field visits, collect and computerise data, at times make
monitoring visits on her own especially in the second and third years.
10. REPORTING
Every six months a detailed report will be
submitted to the donor along the following lines:
Each
six months report will be based on six months of monitoring reports submitted
by the FSMCs to GPS/ YIP. This is a pioneering proposal, just like YIP’s
MGNREGA proposal was.
11. PRAXIS
AND YIP PARTNERSHIP
Young Indian Project has been receiving
support only from the Dutch funding agency Novib. In 2005 Novin withdrew from India. After NOVIB’s withdrawal from India only once
YIP had applied for foreign funding to
Action Aid. We had sought support for
HIV awareness programme. In 2006 we received Rs. 400,000, and in 2007 Rs.
14,00,000 from them.
After submitting nil FCRA reports for 2009
and 2010, we surrendered our FCRA number in 2011. In 2010 we joined Andhra Pradesh
NGO Alliance (APNA), an alliance created by the Govt. of A.P. This NGO partnership was created to monitor
MGNREGA, and we are still partners with the Govt.
From 2008 we did not apply to any donor for
funds. As a policy we decided to rely on
whatever funds we could get from the Govt.
In 2014 YIP decided to go into partnership with
PRAXIS, Alex Tuscano, Bangalore on their request to introduce our MGNREGA APNA
model in Karnataka State. Praxis and YIP have worked in solidarity since 1985. When
the idea of monitoring food security was discussed Praxis was interested. We
decided that in the future all rights monitoring interventions will be taken up
jointly. Hence this proposal is in partnership with Praxis-YIP, the
understanding is Praxis will receive the funds, keep the accounts and get them
audited. It will be YIP’s primary
responsibility do all the field work in
Andhra Pradesh. Praxis will have the
responsibility to carry out the work in Karnataka. Both YIP and Praxis will meet once in two
months to plan and review the work and expenses incurred there by. YIP will accompany Praxis in Karnataka once
in two months and similarly Praxis will join YIP in the work done in Andhra
Pradesh. Praxis will interact with the
donor agency, submit accounts and progress report to the donors once in six
months. YIP will help Praxis by
furnishing the accounts of funds spent in Andha by YIP on a regular basis at
least once in 6 months. Once in 6 months
both YIP and Praxis will prepare a progress report and submit to the donors. In
principle Praxis will be the project holder who will receive funds and will be
totally responsible to the donors.
12. Gender
This is a female gender proposal, women
will do the monitoring and women will be beneficiaries of this proposal : only women heads of each family are issued
ration cards by the Govt.
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1
|
Salaries
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Project
Cordinator
|
15,000.00
|
180,000.00
|
|
|
|
Asst. Project
Coordinator
|
6,000.00
|
72,000.00
|
|
2
|
Travel to
Karnataka
|
2 trips of
four days each
|
|
|
|
|
|
1000x4x2=8,000.00
|
|
|
|
|
|
Driver
500X4x2=4,000.00
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fuel &
toll etc. = 6000.00
|
18,000.00
|
216,000.00
|
|
3
|
Travel in
Andhra
|
Travel to
Kadappa- 3 trips
|
12,000.00
|
144,000.00
|
|
|
|
Fuel for
motorcycle for PC
|
2,000.00
|
24,000.00
|
|
|
|
Travel for Asst. PC
|
2,000.00
|
24,000.00
|
|
|
|
Food &
other expenses 500X8days
|
4,000.00
|
48,000.00
|
|
|
|
Administration
cost
|
5,000.00
|
3,000.00
|
|
|
|
30 Mandal
level Meetings
|
3,000.00
|
36,000.00
|
|
|
For Praxis In
Karnataka
|
|
|
|
|
|
Slaries
|
Project
Coordinator
|
15,000.00
|
180,000.00
|
|
|
Travel
|
|
5,000.00
|
60,000.00
|
|
|
Meeting
expenses
|
|
3,000.00
|
36,000.00
|
|
|
|
Net funds
requested
|
|
|
|
|
All the
administration and other cost will be born by Praxis
|
|
|
|
|
|
GROSS TOTAL
FUNDS REQUESTED
|
|
|
1,023,000.00
|
The
First year budget requirement: Rs.
1,023,000.00 (Rupees ten lakhs twenty three thousand only)
The Second
year budget requirement: Rs.
1,023,000.00 (Rupees ten lakhs twenty three thousand only). We request you to
add 5% inflation escalation.
The
First year budget requirement: Rs.
1,023,000.00 (Rupees ten lakhs twenty three thousand only). We request you to add
10%inflation escalation.
13. Attachments
a
Summary of the National Food
Security Act of 2013. b Monthly monitoring suggestions. c Govt GO on payment of Rs. 6,000 to pregnant
women.
15
Justification for this work .
Crores are being spent through this Act. , monitoring will ensure that
100 % of the funds are reaching
the poor.
Annexure 1.
Summary of the National Food Security Bill 2013
(Revised
version, as tabled in Parliament, 22 March 2013)
1.
Preliminaries
The Bill seeks "to provide for food
and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to
adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life
with dignity and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto".
It extends to the whole of India and
"shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette appoint, and different dates may be
appointed for different States and different provisions of this Act".
2. Entitlements
Public Distribution System (TPDS)
Priority households are entitled to 5 kgs
of foodgrains per person per month, and Antyodaya households to 35 kgs per
household per month. The combined coverage of Priority and Antyodaya households
(called "eligible households") shall extend "up to 75% of the
rural population and up to 50% of the urban population".
The PDS issue prices are given in Schedule
I: Rs 3/2/1 for rice/wheat/millets (actually called "coarse grains"
in the Bill). These may be revised after three years.
Children's Entitlements
For children in the age group of E months
to 6 years, the Bill guarantees an age-appropriate real: free of charge,
through the local anganwadi. For children aged 6-14 years, one fret mid day
rues:: shall be provided every day (except on school holidays) in all schools
run b; local bodies, government and government aided schools, up to Class VIII.
For children below six months "exclusive breastfeeding shall be
promoted".
Children who suffer from malnutrition will
be identified through the local anganwadi a be provided to them free of charge
"through the local anganwadi".
Entitlements of Pregnant and Lactating
Women
Every pregnant and lactating mother is
entitled to a free meal at the local anganwadi (dorm, pregnancy and six months
after child birth) as well as maternity benefits of Rs 6,000, in instalments.
[Notes: (1) "Meal" is defined in
the Bill as "hot cooked meal or ready to eat meal or take home ration, as
may be prescribed by the Central Government". All "meals" have
to meet nutritional norms specified in Schedule II. (2) The entitlements of
women and children are to be delivered by state governments through schemes
"in accordance with the guidelines, including cost sharing" to be
prescribed by the Central Government. (3) Every school arid anganwadi is to
have "facilities for cooking meals, drinking water and sanitation".
(4) For purposes of issuing ration cards, the eIdest woman in the household
(not less than 18 years of age) shall be considered head of the household.;
3. Identification of Eligible Households
The Bill does not specify criteria for the
identification of households (Priority or Antyodaya) eligible for PDS
entitlements. The Central Government is to determine the state-wise coverage of
the PDS, in terms of proportion of the rural/urban population. Then numbers of
eligible persons will be calculated from Census population figures. The
identification of eligible households is left to state governments, subject to
the scheme's guidelines for Antyodaya, and subject to guidelines to be
"specified" by the state government for Priority households. The
lists of eligible households are to be placed in the public domain and
"displayed prominently" by state governments.
4. Food Commissions
The Bill provides for the creation of State
Food Commissions. Each Commission shall consist of a chairperson, five other
members and a member-secretary (including at least two women and one member
each from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes).
The main function of the State Commission
is to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the act, give advice to the
states governments and their agencies, and inquire into violations of
entitlements (either suo motu or on receipt of a complaint, and with "all
the powers of a civil court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil
Procedure 1908"). State Commissions also have to hear appeals against
orders of the District Grievance Redressal Officer and prepare annual reports
to be laid before the state legislature.
The State Commission may forward "any
case" to a Magistrate having jurisdiction, who shall proceed as if the
case has been forwarded under Section 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
1973.
5. Transparency and Grievance Redressal
The Bill provides for a two-tier grievance
redressal structure, involving the District Grievance Redressal Officer (DGRO)
and State Food Commission. State governments must also put in place an internal
grievance redressal mechanism which may include call centres, help lines,
designation of nodal officers, "or such other mechanisms as may be prescribed".
Transparency Provisions
Mandatory transparency provisions include:
(1) placing all PDS-related records in the public domain and keeping them open
for inspection to the public; (2) conducting periodic social audits of the PDS
and other welfare schemes; (3) using information and communication technology
(including end-to end computerisation of the PDS) "to ensure transparent
recording of transactions at all levels" : (4.) setting up vigilance
committees at state, district, block and fair price shop levels to supervise
schemes under the act.
District Grievance Redressal Officers
DGROS shall be appointed by state
governments for each district to hear complaints and take necessary action
according to norms to be prescribed by state governments. If a complainant (or
the officer or authority against whom an order has been passed by the DGRO) is
not satisfied, he or she may file an appeal before the State Food Commission.
Penalties and Compensation
The Food Commissions have powers to impose
penalties. If an order of the DGRO is not complied with, the concerned
authority or officer can be fined up to Rs. 5,000. The Commission can authorise
"any of its members" to act as an adjudicating officer for this
purpose.
In case of "non-supply of the entitled
quantities of food grains or meals to entitled persons", such persons will
be entitled to a food security allowance from the state government, as
prescribed by the central government.
6. Other Provisions PDS Reforms
In Chapter VII, the Bill states that
central and state governments "shall endeavour to progressively
undertake" various PDS reforms, including: doorstep delivery of
foodgrains; ICT applications and end-to-end computerisation; leveraging
"aadhaar" (UID) for unique identification of entitled beneficiaries;
full transparency of records; preference to public institutions or bodies in
licensing of fair price shops; management of fair price shops by women or their
collectives; diversification of commodities distributed under the PDS; full
transparency of records; and "introducing schemes such as cash transfer,
food coupons or other schemes to the targeted beneficiaries in lieu of their
food grain entitlements" as prescribed by the central government.
Obligations of Government and Local
Authorities
The main obligation of the Central
Government is to provide food grains (or, failing that, funds) to state
governments, at prices specified in Schedule I, to implement the main
entitlements. It also has to "provide assistance" to state
governments to meet local distribution costs, but on its own terms ("as
may be prescribed"). The Central Government has wide-ranging powers to
make Rules.
The main obligation of state governments is
to implement the relevant schemes, in accordance with the guidelines issued by
the Central Government. State governments also have wide-ranging power to make
Rules. They are free to extend benefits and entitlements beyond what is
prescribed in the Bill, from their own resources.
Local Authorities and Panchayati Raj
Institutions are responsible for proper implementation of Hit act in their
respective areas, and may be given additional responsibilities by notification.
7. Schedules
The Bill has three schedules. These can be
amended "by notification".
Schedule 1. Prescribes issue prices for the PDS. Schedule
Schedule 2. Prescribes "nutritional standards"
for midday meals, take-home rations and related entitlements. For instance,
take-home rations for children aged 6 months to 3 years should provide at least
500 calories and 12-15 grams of protein. Schedule
Schedule 3. Lists various "provisions for advancing
food security", under three broad headings:
(1) Revitalization
of agriculture e.g. agrarian reforms, research and development, remunerative
prices),
(2) Procurement,
storage and movement of foodgrains (e.g. decentralised procurement), and
(3) Other
provisions (e.g. drinking water, sanitation, health care, and "adequate
pensions" for "senior citizens, person s win disability and single
women").
