Ministry of Rural Development announces awards for

Ministry of Rural Development announces awards

for Civil Society Organizations

Helping in the effective implementation of NREGA

(Rojgar Jagrukta Puraskar)

The Govt. of India has introduced Rojgar Jagrukta Puraskar (RJP) to recognize the outstanding contribution by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for promoting effective implementation of the National Rural Guarantee Act (NREGA) in different states of the country. The RJP will be given for outstanding performance in promoting people’s participation, transparency, social audit, monitoring and evaluation. This award will be given at the panchayat level, block level and district level to those CSOs who have successfully worked towards:

Generating awareness in the rural community in regard to the provisions of the Act, and in particular, the statutory rights of the workers.
Enabling workers to safeguard their legal rights and empower them to benefit from the scheme.
Facilitating workers in obtaining receipt of the demand for work. Enabling the workers to get work allocated to them within the statutory limit of 15 days and obtain unemployment allowance incase they do not get employment in the stipulated time.
Verifying the information in the Muster role and redressing grievances.
Creating awareness about the right of the Gram Sabha and strengthening Social Audit.
Monitoring of on going work and highlighting discrepancies using effective techniques.
Facilitating the process of wage payment through banks/post office accounts.
Ensuring implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Right to the Information Act.

Eligibility:

All registered Civil Society Organizations, individually or as a group for activities taken up from their own resources at the district, block and gram panchayat level will be eligible for consideration for the award. CSOs implementing Grameen Vikas Andolan and NREGA awareness generation projects will not be eligible for the awards.

In every intermediate panchayat one awardee will be selected and will be given an award of Rs. 1000/ for undertaking the work at the gram panchayat level

The award at the intermediate panchayat level will be given @ Rs. 1000/ gram panchayat where the work done is by the CSOs. An additional amount of Rs. 5,000/ will also be given to CSOs when the work of the CSOs extends over at least one-third of the number of the gram panchayats in the intermediate panchayat to be eligible for this award.

For the work done at the district level the award will be given @ of 1000/ gram panchayat and an additional amount of Rs. 10,000/ will also be given to the CSOs. To claim the award at the district level, the work of the CSOs should extend over at least one-third of the number of the gram panchayat of the district.

Modalities:

Nomination of the CSOs may be made separately for district, intermediate and gram panchayat level. The nominations should be sent to the District programme coordinators of NREGA in States/Union Territories. All applications should be recommended by the State Govt. and must be made in prescribed format available at www.nrega.nic.in . The application should be accompanied by details of work done by the CSOs, the period and circumstances in which the work was done, the initiatives taken by the CSOs, the benefits derived, and the ways in which the work represents an outstanding and exemplary contribution to the effective implementation of NREGA.

The application with all details duly recommended by the State Govt.(District Programme Co-ordinator, NREGA) may be submitted to the Regional Offices of CAPART.

Sl. No.	Name & Address of Regional Offices	States/Union Territories under jurisdictions
1	Shri L.B.Singh RR & Member Convenor R.C CAPART H.No. 304, Indira Niwas Bharti Nagar, 3^rd Main Road Dasanakoppa Circle Dharwad- 580001 Phone: 0836-2770764 Fax: 0836-2770810 Email: capartrcdwd@rediffmail.com	Karnataka, Kerala & Lakshadweep
2	Shri Deepankar Shri Gyan RR & Member Convenor, RC CAPART Biscomaun Bhawan 5^th Floor, Gandhi Maidan West Patna- 800001 Phone: 0612-2211648 Fax: 0612-2211648	Bihar & Jharkhand
3	Shri Arun Kumar Rajput Central Zone R.C. CAPART PICUP Bhawan, 6^th floor Block-A, Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar Lucknow- 226010 Phone: 0522-2721695 Fax: 0522-2721696 Email: capart_rcluck@yahoo.co.in	Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand
4	Smt. Gitanjali S. Bhttacharya RR & Member Convenor North East Zone, RC, CAPART Ashok Path, Bashistha Road (Survey) Guwahati- 781028] Phone: 0361-2268368, 2269113 Fax: 0361-2268368 Email: capartrcghy@yahoo.co.in	Assam, Nagaland, Mijoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura & Meghalaya
5	Shri Om Prakash RR & Member Convenor South Zone, R.C, CAPART NIRD Campus, Faculty Building No. 11 Rajendra Nagar Hyderabad-500030 Phone: 040-24017851 Fax: 040-24018669 Email: capartrchyd@hotmail.com	Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu & Pandicherry
6	Shri M.L.GUpta RR & Member Convenor North Zone, RC, CAPART Tambi Tower, 3^rd Flool Sansar Chandra Road, Jaipur- 302001 Phone: 0141-2379783, 2373460 Fax: 0141-2379783 Email: capart.rcjaipur@gmail.com	Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh & Delhi
7	Shri Anupam Kashyap RR & Member Convenor, RC, CAPART SCO/179-180, 2^nd Floor Sector-17-C Chandigarh Phone: 0172-2720465, 0720478 Fax: 0172-2700457 Email: capart_chd @rediffmail.com	Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Chandigarh & Punjab
8	Shri Vijay Kumar Rai RR & Member Convenor East Zone R.C, CAPART Sird Campus, Unit- VIII Near Stewart School Bhubaneswar- 751012 Phone: 0674-2565850 Fax: 0674-2565860 Email: capart_rcbhub_sd@sify.com	West Bengal, Chattisgarh, Orissa, Andaman & Nikobar Ice land
9	Shri S.H.Indurkar, RR & Member Convenor West Zone, R.C, CAPART Navjeevan Trust Complex, P.O. Navjeevan Opp. Ashram Road, Ahmeadbad- 380015 Phone: 079-7545072,7545073 Fax: 079-7545072 Email: capartahd@gmail.com	Gujarat, Maharastra, Goa, Daman & Diu, Dadar & Nagar Haveli

Last date for submission of application by CSOs to District Programme Coordinator (DPC): 20 November, 2008

Last date for submission of applications by DPCs to the Regional Offices of CAPART: 25 November, 2008

Applications which do not fulfil the eligibility criteria will be eliminated and those fulfilling the eligibility conditions will be retained for further verification and evaluation.

For more information visit www.capart.nic.in

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