on 5 February, 2014 we organised a workshop on convergence in mGNREGS. This is the base presentation for the Workshop.

1. CONVERGENCE IN
MAHATMA GANDHI
NREGA
S TAT E L E V E L
WORKSHOP
ON CONVERGENCE
K O L K ATA , 5 F E B R U A RY

2. WHAT IS CONVERGENCE IN
MGNREGA ?
• MGNREGA has workforce in the form of
registered wage-seekers
• It also has financial resources
• It seeks participation of other Departments/
Programs with their
 Labor intensive programs having scope of
livelihood generation/ development of
infrastructure conducive to livelihood
 Technical expertise
• Pooled finance

3. WHAT KIND OF CONVERGENCE
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• With financial resources
• With technical expertise
• As Program Implementing Agency
(PIA)
• Pre-implementation convergence
• (Where other program support ends,
MGNREGA support begins)
• During program convergence
• (both the programs run simultaneously)
• Post-program convergence
• (MGNREGA ends, other program takes

4. THE MANDATE
• In terms of expenditure, not less than 20
percent of financial resources in MGNREGS
in a year will be utilized for works taken up
in convergence
• Focus of convergence will be on development
of assets capable of enhancing livelihood
• A part of the works will generate direct asset at
the household level for ST/ SC/ BPL
households and beneficiaries of IAY and Land
Reforms
There will be a ‘nodal officer for convergence’ in
each of the converging departments

5. THREE MAJOR AREAS OF
CONVERGENCE
Intradepartmental
Convergence
InterDepartmental
Convergence
Village level
Convergence

6. AREAS OF CONVERGENCE
NRLM
NBA
WITHIN P&RDD
PMGSY
IAY
ISGPP
OSR
BRGF
FC
GRANTS
WITHIN P&RDD
NSAP
CADP

7. AREAS OF CONVERGENCE
AGRICULTURE
FPI & HORTI
WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS
IRRIGATION
FOOD &
SUPPLIES
WRD
COMMERC
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INDUSTRIE
S
FOREST
ARD
WITH OTHER
DEPARTMENTS
SOCIAL
WELFARE
& CD
FISHERIES
SPORTS &
YOUTH
SUNDERBANS/
PASCHIMACHANCH
AL
UTTARBANGA

8. NBA-MGNREGS CONVERGENCE
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IHHL
Both the programs financially contribute
Rs.4600.00 from NBA
Rs.4500 from MGNREGS
Rs.900.00 beneficiary contribution
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AWC Toilets
Either NBA or MGNREGS contribute
Sanctioned cost is Rs.8000.00 only (from NBA)
Estimated at Rs.25000.00
Department of CD may contribute Rs. 17000.00

9. PMGSY-MGNREGS CONVERGENCE
Pre-PMGSY
• Earthwork identified PMGSY roads prior to
tender
• As per PMGSY specifications
• Preferably by the same set of engineers
Post-PMGSY
• Plantation on the road fringes
• Water harvesting structures beneath the
culverts
• Farm Road Network (FARMNET)
• Maintenance of PMGSY roads in project

10. CONVERGENCE WITH NRLM
PROCESS RELATED CONVERGENCE
• Involving SHGs and their Clusters and Federations
in planning, implementation, monitoring and
supervision
• Supervisors mostly from the SHGs
• Special focus on women person-days the CFT
NRLM-MGNREGS Convergence and
Strategy
• Working with CSO for planning, capacity building,
monitoring and supervision
• SHG Clusters and Federations as CBO
• Intensive planning

11. CONVERGENCE WITH CADC
• CADC under the Comprehensive Area
Development Program has its farms and
expertise, especially in nursery raising,
plantation related activities
• CADC can work in convergence with
MGNREGS by sharing its expertise in these
spheres
• It may also act as the PIA and raise
nurseries on its own land and also through
capacity building of the SHGs
• Any innovative project where resource

12. CONVERGENCE WITH OTHER
PROGRAMS OF THE P&RD
DEPARTMENT
• BRGF/ Fund for Backward villages/FC Grants/
Fund received under ISGPP/ Own Resources of
the Panchayats may be pooled for meeting capital
cost of MGNREGS
• In IAY, Rs.12,000.00 / Rs.12,500.00 worth of
unskilled wages may be added to the approved
cost of construction of houses
• This can also be utilized for any other rural
housing program
• All Widow pension receiving families may be
provided with 100 days of work under MGNREGS
as a mandatory guarantee

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CONVERGENCE WITH
AGRICULTURE
In identified watershed areas, Agriculture Department
may prepare intervention plan synchronized with
MGNREGS
Any labor intensive work, on land owned by the
ST/SC/BPL families and the beneficiaries of Land
Reforms and IAY may be planned from MGNREGS
In common property resources within watershed,
MGNREGS support is possible
All other works may be taken up under Watershed
program, thereby pulling resources of both the
programs
Compost pits, azola cultivation, vermin composting to
enhance productivity may be planned by the
Agriculture Deptt
Different work in the agriculture farms (Department-

14. CONVERGENCE WITH ARD
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Goat shelter
Poultry
Cattle-shed
Azola cultivation
Vermin compost
Pucca floor on cattle-shed, urine tanks, fodder
trough
• Different work in the ARD Farms
CONVERGENCE WITH FISHERIES
• Technical guidance on farm ponds
• Pisciculture in farm ponds
• Work in public tanks

15. CONVERGENCE WITH
HORTICULTURE
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Orchards development
Land for floriculture
Green houses
Poly houses
Land development for horticulture
including vegetable gardens, nurseries
• Irrigation sources for the orchards, gardens
and nurseries
• Micro irrigation
• Special initiatives under the Directorate of
Cinchona & Other Medicinal Plants

16. CONVERGENCE WITH FOREST
• In core forest area
• In forest fringe area
• In social forestry divisions
• Digging of trenches
• Development of water-bodies
• Nurseries
• Plantation
• Vegetative fences
• Watershed-based development activities in
forest areas

17. CONVERGENCE WITH WRI &
DEVELOPMENT
• ‘Jal Dharo Jal Bharo’ program
• ‘Farm ponds’ with pucca banks and
irrigation systems where the labor
component will come from MGNREGS and
the Department will provide material and
technical skill
CONVERGENCE WITH IRRIGATION &
WATERWAYS
• Embankment strengthening
• Vetivar plantation
• Larger irrigation projects
 Irrigation Dept. may provide for machines and
transportation, MGNREGS may provide labor

18. CONVERGENCE WITH PHED
• Soak pits/ recharge pits for water
• Platforms for tube-wells
• Solid & Liquid waste management
CONVERGENCE WITH YOUTH & SPORTS
• Development of play grounds
CONVERGENCE WITH FOOD & SUPPLIES
• Storage structures for food grains

19. CONVERGENCE WITH COMMERCE &
INDUSTRIES AND MSME
• Work in Tea Gardens
• Work in rubber plantations
• Sericulture
CONVERGENCE WITH SOCIAL WELFARE &
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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Construction of AWC
AWC toilets
Development of play grounds of AWC
Orchards on AWC land (where available)
Support to the families of the victims of

20. VILLAGE LEVEL CONVERGENCE
Convergence through Habitationbased Planning
Gram Sansad (Ward level)
Panchayats
Civil Society Organizations/ NGOs
Community-based Organizations/
SHG Federations
Representatives of different line
Departments

21. OUR SUBMISSION
• Convergence must be both-ways• Not merely taking MGNREGS fund and
running departmental activities
• But pooled resources
• Fund
• Technical expertise
• Supervisory support
• Issues related to MIS, e-Musters, eFMS are to be tackled as we go along

22. • Convergence is a way of life
• It is the key to the success of
livelihood generation for the poor
under MGNREGA
Thanks