The document outlines the expectations and priorities for a workshop on developing model plans and estimates for works under MGNREGS. It lists the following key expectations: 1. Identifying possible works categorized under land, water, plants, and animals and exploring convergence opportunities with other programs. 2. Preparing plans, estimates, designs, and budgets for each identified work using standardized templates and formats. 3. Exploring alternative technologies that are cost-effective, environmentally friendly, labor intensive, and disaster resilient. The priorities highlighted include habitation-based planning centered around community needs, treating wage-seekers as stakeholders rather than beneficiaries, and focusing on land, water and plants. It also emphasizes convergence

1. Workshop on
MODEL PLAN
&ESTIMSTES for
works under
MGNREGS
24-27 March 2014
SIPRD, Kalyani

2. Expectations
• Listing all possible works under 4 major
categories
• Identifying scope of convergence
against each identified work
• With which programme/department
• In what fashion
• Identifying women specific
components of works, apart from the
common component

3. Expectations
•Preparing Plan for each identified
work
•Plan specifying physical and financial
outlays, physical output and
outcome
•Plan giving the specifics of the
location (lat-long) and other details

4. Expectations
•Preparing Estimates for each of the
identified works
•Estimates with regional variation, if
required
•Estimates in easy to replicate ‘excel’
format

5. Expectations
•Preparing Designs for each of the
identified works
•Standard designs
•More focus on visualization so that
the design, if painted on the ‘info-
board’ at worksite can be
understood by the villagers

6. Expectations
•Exploring the scope of using
alternative technology for the
assets under MGNREGS
•Cost-effective
•Environment friendly
•Labor intensive
•Disaster proof

7. Priorities
• Habitation-based planning with community,
not individuals at the core
• (IBS will be there, rather in a larger scale- but
IBS will be identified by the community and not
by individuals)
• Wage-seekers as stakeholders and not as
labourers or beneficiaries
• Focus on land, water and plants

8. Priorities
• Focus on convergence
• Intra-departmental
• Inter-departmental
• Involving women SHG at all level from
planning, through implementation to
monitoring and supervision
• Plan for individual works to align to the
outcome for the habitation and impact on the
community

9. Grouping of participants
• Land group (Watershed, agriculture…)
• Water group (Irrigation, WRID…)
• Plantation group (Forest, Horticulture…)
• Animal group (ARD, Fisheries…)
• Sanitation group (NBA, NGO…)
• IBS group
• Infrastructure and Alternative technology group
(DRR…)