{ "id": 17101, "slug": "haryana-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme-2007", "title": "Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2007", "short_title": "Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2007", "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. S. O. 21/C.A. 42/2", "act_year": 2007, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Haryana", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2007", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Title of scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (Act 42 of 2005) ;\n(b) \"Additional District Programme Coordinator\" means the Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive officer of the District Rural Development Agency ;\n(c) \"Central Rules\" means the rules framed by the Central Government under the Act ;\n(d) \" Panchayat Act\" means the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994(Act 11 of 1994);\n(e) \"section\" means the section of the Act;\n(f) \"State Programme Coordinator\" means the Officer of the State Government in the Rural Development Department, not below the rank of Joint Secretary, so designated;\n(g) \"State Rules\" means the rules framed by the State Government under the Act;\n(h) \"Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samiti, Gram Panchayat, Gram Sabha\" shall have the same meaning as defined in the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994(Act 11 of 1994);\n(i) words and expressions used herein but not defined in this scheme, shall have the same meaning as are respectively assigned to them in the Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "1", "title": "3. Districts where Programme will be implemented (section 1).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Objectives (Section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Primary. - The primary objective of the scheme is to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security to the households in rural areas of the notified areas of Haryana by providing round the year employment with minimum guarantee of one hundred days of wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.\n(b) Secondary. - The secondary objective is the creation of durable community, social and economic assets and infrastructural development in rural areas.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Nodal Department of state.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "22", "title": "6. Funding Pattern (Section 22).", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) The entire cost of wages of unskilled manual workers, 75% of the cost of material and wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers, administrative expenses including salary and allowances of the Block Programme Officer and his supporting staff, work site facilities shall be borne by the Government of India.\n(2) The State Government shall bear 25% of the cost of material and wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers, unemployment allowance payable under the Scheme and the state level administrative expenses, if any.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "5", "title": "7. Target Group (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) atleast fifty labourers become available for such work; and\n(b) the labourers can not be absorbed in the ongoing works; provided that this condition shall not be applicable for new works, as determined by the State Government, in hilly areas and in respect of afforestation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "16", "title": "8. Village Level - Programme Strategy (section 16).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "4", "title": "9. Focus Areas- Type of works (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "(j) Water conservation and water harvesting ; e.g. excavation and construction of tanks, check dams, percolation tanks, ponds, rain water harvesting structures.\n(ii) Drought proofing. Afforestation and tree plantation; e.g. all components of watershed development, afforestation and tree plantations, labour intensive fencing, nursery raising, horticulture in community lands and other related activities.\n(iii) Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works such as desilting of minor irrigation channels, canals, distributaries, construction of minor irrigation tanks, feeder channels and creation of labour intensive irrigation structures.\n(iv) Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by households belonging to Scheduled Castes or to land beneficiaries of land reforms or that of the beneficiaries under Indira Awaas Yojana of the Government of India.\n(v) Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of tanks; renovation of water bodies including community drinking water wells, dug wells, bore wells and desilting/excavation of tanks.\n(vi) Land development of land owned by Gram Panchayat or households belonging to Scheduled Castes, beneficiaries of land reforms, the beneficiaries under Indira Awaas Yojana, development of play grounds, development of land for rural markets and for creating other durable community assets.\n(vii) Flood control and protection works including drainage in water logged areas including creation of temporary drainage labour intensive structures during rainy season.\n(viii) Rural connectivity to provide all weather access. The construction of roads may include culverts where necessary and within the village area may be taken up along with drains.\n(ix) The State Government may notify any other work in consultation with the Central Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "19", "title": "10. Grievance Redressal (section 19).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "4", "title": "11. Right to information (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter-II\nRegistration", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "5", "title": "12. Eligibility (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) Be a local resident within the Panchayat\n(b) Register themselves as a household with the local Gram Panchayat\n(c) Obtain a household Job Card from the Gram Panchayat\n(d) Apply for work on the basis of the Job Card\n(e) Be willing to do unskilled manual work", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. The women who have registered and requested for work under the scheme shall get priority and one-third of the labourers shall be from among the women.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Preference shall be given to any disabled person from the rural areas who applied for work. They can be provided with job opportunities in the form of services as an integral part of the scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "5", "title": "13. Registration (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "5", "title": "14. Verification (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "5", "title": "15. Job Card (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter III\nWages and Programme Management", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "6", "title": "16. Wages under programme (section 6).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "7", "title": "17. Payment of unemployment allowance (section 7).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the applicant is directed by the Gram Panchayat or Block Programme Officer to report for work either by himself or to depute at least one adult member of his household; or\n(b) the period for which employment is sought comes to an end and no member of the household of the applicant had turned up for employment; or\n(c) the adult members of the household of the applicant have received in total at least one hundred days of work within the financial year; or\n(d) the household of the applicant has earned as much from the wages and unemployment allowance taken together which is equal to the wages for one hundred days of work during the financial year.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "5", "title": "18. Compensation (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "21", "title": "19. Funds Flow (section 21).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "4", "title": "20. Administrative, technical, approval, execution and technical supervision of works (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "9", "title": "21. Disentitlement (section 9).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) does not accept the employment provided to his household under the Scheme; or\n(b) does not report for work within fifteen days of being notified by the Programme Officer of the implementing agency to report for the work; or\n(c) continuously remains absent from work, without obtaining a permission from the concerned implementing agency for a period of more than one week or remains absent for a total period of more than one week in any month, shall not be eligible to claim the unemployment allowance payable under the Act for a period of three months but shall be eligible to seek employment under the Scheme at any time;\n(d) if the Gram Panchayat is satisfied at any time that a person has registered by furnishing false information, it may request the Block Programme Officer that the name shall be deleted after giving due opportunity of being heard.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "4", "title": "22. Wage & non-wage ratio (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "4", "title": "23. Muster roll (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the muster rolls for the works sanctioned to be executed by it; and\n(b) a list of employment opportunities available elsewhere to the residents of the Gram Panchayat;\n(c) muster rolls shall be maintained for every work separately, showing the details of wages paid to workers. The muster rolls for all works shall have entries showing the number and details of Scheduled Castes/Women and others who have been provided employment. Those responsible for the preparation of muster roll shall be responsible for these entries also;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "17", "title": "24. Social audit (Section 17).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "24", "title": "25. Physical and financial audit (section 24).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "4", "title": "26. Records of the assets created (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "4", "title": "27. Ban on contractors and labour displacing machines (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "4", "title": "28. Convergence/ dovetailing with other programmes (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "4", "title": "29. Powers to issue clarifications (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter -IV\nPlanning, Works And Execution", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "14", "title": "30. Perspective Plan (section 14).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "14", "title": "31. Annual action plan (section 14).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "14", "title": "32. Implementing Authority (section 14).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "5", "title": "33. Maintenance of employment register (section 5).", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter-V\nManagement level", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "12", "title": "34. State level (section 12).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) advising the State Government on all matters concerning Scheme and its implementation in the State;\n(b) determining the preferred works;\n(c) reviewing the monitoring and redressal mechanisms from time to time and recommending improvements;\n(d) promoting the widest possible dissemination of information about the Act and the schemes under it;\n(e) monitoring the implementation of the Act and the schemes in the State and coordinating such implementation with the Central Council;\n(f) preparing the annual report to be laid before the State Legislature by the State Government;\n(g) any other duty or function as may be assigned to it by the Central Council or the State Government;\n(h) to undertake an evaluation of the schemes operating in the State and for that purpose to collect or cause to be collected statistics pertaining to the rural economy and the implementation of the schemes and programmes in the State.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "14", "title": "35. District level (section 14).", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) To assist the Zila Parishad in discharging its functions under the Act and any Scheme made thereunder.\n(b) To consolidate the plans prepared by the blocks and project proposals received from other implementing agencies for inclusion in the shelf of projects to be approved by the Panchayat at district level.\n(c) To accord necessary sanction and administrative clearance, wherever necessary.\n(d) To coordinate with the Programme Officers functioning within his jurisdiction and the implementing agencies to ensure that the applicants are provided employment as per their entitlement under the Act.\n(e) To review, monitor and supervise the performance of the Programme Officers.\n(f) To conduct periodic inspection of the works in progress.\n(g) To redress the grievances of the applicants.\n(h) To prepare a labour budget every year before the end of February for the next financial year containing the details of anticipated demand for unskilled manual work in the district and the plan for engagement of labourers in the works covered under the Scheme and submit it to the Zila Parishad.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "15", "title": "36. Block level (section 15).", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) Responsible for matching the demand for employment with the employment opportunities arising from projects in the area under his jurisdiction.\n(ii) Overall supervision and coordination of registration of applicants for employment and for providing wage employment in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the Scheme notified by the State.\n(iii) Prepare a plan for the block under his jurisdiction by consolidating the project proposals prepared by the Gram Panchayats and the proposals received from Panchayat Samitis.\n(iv) Receive resources from District Programme Coordinator and release them to the implementing agency in accordance with these guidelines and the Scheme of the State Government.\n(v) Maintain proper accounts of the resources received, released and utilized.\n(vi) Monitoring of projects taken up by the Gram Panchayats and other implementing/executing agencies within his jurisdiction.\n(vii) Sanctioning and ensuring payment of unemployment allowance to the eligible households.\n(viii) Ensuring prompt and fair payment of wages to all labourers employed under a programme of the Scheme within his jurisdiction.\n(ix) Ensuring that regular social audits of all works within the jurisdiction of the Gram Panchayat are carried out by the Gram Sabha and that prompt action is taken on the objections raised in the social audit.\n(x) Dealing promptly with all complaints that may arise in connection with the implementation of the Scheme within the Block.\n(xi) Any other work as may be assigned to him by the District Programme Coordinator or the State Government.\nChapter-VI\nMonitoring and Evaluation", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "4", "title": "37. Monitoring and evaluation of the programme (section 4).", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "Last Updated 6th September, 2019 [hl762]", "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. S. O. 21/C.A. 42/2005/S. 4/2007, dated 16.3.2007", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2007", "Short Title": "Haryana Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, 2007", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Haryana" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }