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NREGA / Right to Work | State digs into rural job scheme to clean villages -Sivakumar B

State digs into rural job scheme to clean villages -Sivakumar B

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published Published on Feb 2, 2016   modified Modified on Feb 2, 2016
-The Times of India

CHENNAI: In a rare initiative, the Tamil Nadu government has taken up waste management and conservancy in villages using the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to employ conservancy workers. The scheme is being implemented in 9,000 of 12,000 panchayats and more than 60,000 `Thuimai Kavalars` (sanitation workers) have been appointed so far. All workers are paid Rs.183 as daily wages. The Union rural development department is now set to adopt the scheme for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

"The villages are looking better than ever before. For the past few months, the workers have been collecting garbage and segregating it. Degradable was te has been converted to compost and sold to farmers in nearby villages," Gandhigram trust secretary K Shivakumar said, describing work at one such site near Dindigul. The state has allocated Rs 300 crore for the scheme since 2013-14 and money has been used for purchase of implements and construction of sheds for segregating garbage. The waste management scheme was first implemented as a pilot project in 2,000 villages close to cities, pilgrimage centres or tourist destinations.

"The scheme has been extended to 7,000 more villages. So far only urban areas had sanitation workers appointed by urban local bodies or private companies. But in Tamil Nadu for the first time workers with MGNREGS job cards were chosen by panchayats and made responsible for collection of garbage from 130 households in the village," said a senior rural department official.

The number of households to be covered per person was decided after a study on garbage collection and the time taken. Only after this, it was decided that a worker has to collect garbage in 130 households in a village and get signatures from the first and last house.

Selected workers are given uniforms, gloves, caps and implements.The workers have to collect the garbage and segregate it as bio-degradable and non-degradable. They have to dig three pits, of which two are used for storing bio-degradable garbage and the third for non-degradable like plastics. The pits with bio-degradable waste is used for composting and the manure sold to local farmers. Plastic is shred and used for road laying.

Workers are being trained by the Gandhigram Rural Institute, said Shivakumar.

For the first 100 days, the worker is paid through MGNREGS and for remaining days he or she gets wages from a solid waste management scheme run by the state government. "Thus more than 60,000 workers get work throughout the year and also wages at Rs. 183 per day. Currently a team of officials from Rajasthan is touring Tamil Nadu to learn more about the scheme," said the official.
 
The Times of India, 31 January, 2016, please click here to access

The Times of India, 31 January, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/State-digs-into-rural-job-scheme-to-clean-villages/articleshow/50790572.cms


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