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About the Gram Panchayat 2

Public Meeting of Social Audit 2

Project wise reports 5

Project wise reports

Construction of road from Lokiguda to Sindhimunda 5

Construction of road from Lokiguda to Sindhimunda 9

Construction of road from Jadabandha to Jhankarguda 11

Panelist Note 16

Report of the Social Audit on NREGS, Orissa of Pandasguda panchayat 1


REPORT OF SOCIAL AUDIT OF PANDASGUDA GRAM PANCHYAT
About the Gram Panchayat

Pandasguda Gram Panchayat comes under the Boriguma block of Koraput district. The Panchayat consists of 6
revenue villages and 6 helmets namely

1. Pandasaguda
2. Rengaliguda
3. Paraja Guda
4. Bada Paraja Guda
5. Jani Guda
6. Gundri Guda
7. Jhankra Guda
8. Jadabandha
9. Biriguda
10. Guchhaguda
11. Luiciguda
12. Pujari Guda

The entire GP has about 883 House Holds out of which 118 house holds belongs to SC category, 649 house holds
belongs to ST category , 46 house holds belongs to OBC category and 46 house holds belongs to general category.

A process of social Audit has been initiated from 22st January 2008 with the help of 13 trained volunteers hailing from
different NGOs of Orissa. During the process volunteers undertook a house hold survey across the Panchayat. The
main objective behind this survey is to collect information at the same time create awareness among the villagers. It
also helped to find out problems and prospects under NREGA.

The volunteers took enormous pain to sensitize the villagers on various aspects of NREGS through various processes
like organizing village meetings, distributing leaflets to every house hold, and also songs and slogans. All the findings
of the team shared in the social audit meeting organized on 31st of January 2008.

Public Meeting of Social Audit

Date: 31st January 2008


Place: Pandasguda

The Social Audit team had made effort to communicate the legal provisions related to registration, work demand,
unemployment allowance, worksite facilities during the process of household survey and village meetings. Villagers
were also given information about them in the social Audit meeting. The important implementing officials and Panchyat
functionaries present were
1. Sri Balakrushna Sahoo, Collector, Koraput District
2. Sri Biswajeet Biswal , BDO, Pandasguda
3. Sri R.K.Nayak, JE
4. Sri J.S.N Subudhi
5. Smt Sabita Pujari , Sarpanch
6. Sri Gaura Hari Raut, PEO

Apart from the other employees of GP, Mr Bidut Mohanty, Secretary, SPREAD, all members and representatives of
NGOs were present. About five hundred villagers had participated in the social audit.

Detail findings on the functioning of the NREG Act based on the survey that was carried out are given below.

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DETAIL FINDINGS ON DEMOGRAPHY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NREGA IN THE GRAM PANCHAYAT

LAND
POSSION (IN
CASTE POPULATION ACRE) JOB CARD WITH
PERSONS CAN
NO OF GET JOB IN JOB BPL
VILLAGE(REVENUE HOUSE WORK DUE TO TEAM’S HH HOUSE
SL VILLAGE/ HAMLET) HOLDS SC ST OBC OC MALE FEMALE CHILD TOTAL WET DRY REGISTERATION APPLY INTERVATION ITSELF OUTSIDE HOLD
1 Pandasaguda 136 23 50 36 27 153 174 184 511 5.5 95 44 91 223 89 3 120
2 Rengaliguda 187 42 124 15 6 215 238 243 696 16 129 74 106 266 108 3 129
3 Paraja Guda 31 0 31 0 0 30 32 34 96 0 7 12 19 33 19 0 21
4 Bada Paraja Guda 32 0 32 0 0 35 34 58 127 0 16 15 17 38 17 0 22
5 jani Guda 64 0 64 0 0 79 83 78 240 2 36 24 0 8 2 0 64
6 Gundri Guda 55 5 50 0 0 50 55 58 163 13 8 55 34 0 0 0 34
7 Jhankra Guda 48 0 48 0 0 52 59 64 175 9 16 31 0 0 0 0 40
8 Jadabandha 159 26 125 4 4 194 202 284 680 0 102 154 4 6 3 0 117
9 Biriguda 17 1 8 8 0 22 28 37 87 0 22 4 0 0 1 14 17
10 Guchhaguda 34 0 34 0 0 45 44 76 165 0 31 19 13 25 10 4 25
11 Luiciguda 53 0 51 1 1 58 75 69 202 0 28 53 53 88 43 0 41
12 Pujari Guda 67 21 32 6 8 68 80 137 285 0 16 6 7 98 42 22 50
TOTAL 883 118 649 70 46 1001 1104 1322 3427 45.5 506 491 344 785 334 46 680

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During the process of house hold survey, the team found that the Gram Panchayat has about 884 house holds and have
a population of around 3427. Out of the total house holds, 680 are BPL categories. 491 house holds have registered so
far under NREGA and 344 persons had applied for job. 334 households have job card with them and 46 job cards are
with other persons.

The process of sensitization not only helped the villagers to have better understanding on NREGA but also help to build
up an environment for the Public Hearing. Finally, all these efforts of the volunteers showed result by way of registering
491 house holds and application for job increased from 334 to 704.

FINDINGS OF THE TEAM ON VARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF NREGA

Activities Positive side NEGATIVE SIDE

Registration of house The Panchayat took The Panchayat has not taken action to register
holds initiative to register the potential beneficiaries.The people, in general, are
household those applied not aware of the process of registration under
during the social audit. NREGA.

Distribution of job card 1) Some persons have not got job card though they
have already been issued as per records.

For example 8 persons of Lokiguda have informed to


the team that they have never received job cards.

2) Some persons have got job card for the first time
with entries in them.

27 persons of Lukiguda have given a affidavit jointly


that they have not worked and they were given job
cards after entries were made in them.

Job demand Panchayat has received


the job demand form
without any hesitation
Implementation and No mention in the MR of some persons who have
supervision of work actually worked.

Physical verification shows that some works like


length and breath of the road is less then the
government records.
Payment of wage Some workers are paid.
1. Wages paid to dead persons!
2. Payments are not given in time.
3. Payments still not given to some
workers.
4. Wage payment is less then the
government rate.
Payment of unemployment - People are not unaware of such a provision in NREGA nor has
allowances the implementing ageny made any effort to make workers aware
about it.
Worksite facility No provision of worksite facility, like facility for Rest, drinking
water, taking care of children has ever been made.

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PROJECT WISE REPORTS

During the social Audit process, 3 completed projects was taken for detail Audit. After collecting of the cash records and
secondary Data from Panchayat, social audit Team member with the help of local youth, verified the fact and presented
that during the social audit.

First of all the given muster roll were consolidated and after that verified with the actual beneficiary, basing on their
statement the labor component was analyzed. All the provided documents like –running bill, voucher, measurement book
were analyzed and again verified with the beneficiaries. When all the documents including muster roll were completely
analyzed. A final report has been prepared to present in the public hearing with the active participation of the
beneficiaries and other dignitaries present.

PROJECT - 1
CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD FROM LOKIGUDA TO SINDHIMUNDA

Name of the work : Construction of road from Lokiguda to Sindhimunda


Work Code : 2411017/rc-er/30715
Length of road : 280 Meter
Beneficiaries from : Biriguda, Lokiguda, Pandasguda, Rengalguda
Implementing Agency : Gram Panchayat
Total Estimate : 5, 00,000/-
Total Sanctioned : 5, 00,000/-
Financial Year : 2007-08
Work started : 04/06/07
Work completed : 22/08/07
Total No 0f Labour : 136 (As per MR)
Total Man Days : 2837 (As per MR)
Total Wage : 4,13,115/- (As per MR)

Plan and estimate Expenses as per records Actual

Material Component

Steel 2312 Wage 4,13,115 Wage 91356

Metal 14053.26 Shed 2000 Shed 0

Sand 2644.32 Board 2500


Board Not sure
Chips 488.54 Supply of TRP
Material 15340 Supply of TRP
Cement 18848.56 Material Not sure
Other expenses
Other expenses including Royalty 69317 Other expenses
signboard, Royalty, including Royalty Not sure
Centering 151798.94

Labor Component

Unskilled Labor 309155

Skilled labor 640

Semiskilled labor 5928

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Total 5,00,000 Total 502272 Total 91356

Note: The material component has not been analyzed by the team. So the team can calculate the probable expense on wage. No
expenditure on shed was made as a rest shed have never been constructed.

Differences in Plan & Estimate and Actual

Man-days created Wage of labor Material used


(Total cost – paid to labor)
According to As per muster According to As per muster According to Actual
plan & estimate roll plan & estimate roll plan & estimate
5755 2837 402846 413115 97154 86885

Findings of the team on wage payment during muster roll verification

After consolidation the volunteers started their operation in the field just to cross check and to verify. Fifteen MR has been
used for the said work and as per the MR, 136 workers were employed and 2837 man days has been created. The
volunteers were able to interact with all the laborers during the process of verification, who (According to MR) have
worked in the respective work.

Muster roll verification

SL Category NUMBER OF WAGE Actual labour payment Difference of wage


WORKERS PAYMENT AS between MR and
PER MR Labour statement

1 Not worked 38 84298 0 84298


2 Dead at the 0 NA NA NA
time of work
3 Paid less 80 277000 79879 197103
then the MR
4 Team Could 18 51817 NA NA
not met
Total 136 413155 79869 281401

Calculation of probable expenditure on wage payment

Particular According to Labor statement


muster roll Wage Got Wage Not Got Out comes in percentage

Payment of wage to Rs361298/- Rs 79897/- Rs281401/- • Actual wage payment made


the 118 laborer
79897÷ 361298 ×100 = 22.11%

• No payment made

100-22.11 = 77.89% (Appx 78%)

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Remark On payment of wage :

According to the statement of the labor, 80 people have worked on that work and received only
Rs.28140/- as wage, which is only 22.11% of the total wage mentioned in the muster roll in the name
of the labor.

The Rest 77.89 % has not paid, directly or indirectly to the said labor, it shows that a huge sum has
been misappropriated.

According to muster roll 136 labors has been employed and their wage mentioned in muster roll is Rs.4, 13,115. And in
118 sample labor only Rs.79897 has been paid, in fact which should be Rs. 3,61,298/-. So, if all these data is taken into
consideration. Then

1- The total amount which has paid to the labor in this work =

Rs79897 ÷ Rs361298× Rs413115 = Rs. 91355.74(Rs91356)

(Rs. 91356 is 22.11% of the total wage paid Rs.413115)

2- The total amount not paid to the labor in this work =

Rs.413115 - Rs 91356= Rs.3, 21,759/-

(Rs 3, 21,759 is 77.98% of the total wage paid)

Conclusion of the team:


It is clear that in this work only 22.11% wage money has paid directly to the laborer (Rs.91355/- ) and 77.98% of total
wage money has never been gone to the laborer (i.e. Rs.321759/-)

MUSTER ROLL VERIFICATION

During the process of muster roll verification, the social audit team has got number of discrepancies. The discrepancies
includes
• Name of workers included in the MR who have never worked and get paid. Entries in the job cards have also been
made. Examples are- Tilatama Muduli (JC NO- 11960) and Jema Jani (JC No-11976) of Pandasguda village. Nila
Harijan (JC No-9452) & Tulsi Harijan (JC No-9487) of Biriguda Village
• Some workers have worked but paid less then shown in the MR – it is by increasing the days of work and wages
paid in MR.
• Some workers had actually worked but there is no mention in MR about them. The Examples are Damaru Harijan ,
Lokinath of Biriguda village.
• Money has been withdrawn by making false thumb impression in the MR though the concerned worker is a literate
person. Example is Tankadhar Nayak (JC No-13449).

The team also found some other irregularities while verifying MR. To justify all the discrepancies, the volunteers have
sufficient evidence as they have collected affidavits of the following persons and some of them openly admitted them in
the public hearing. Details on the affidavits are mentioned below

Twelve persons of Pandas Guda have given a joint Affidavit stating that they have never worked and have never received
money. The MR shows that they have worked and have got wage.

DETAILS OF WORKERS

SL NAME JOB CARD


NUMBER
1 Omuni Mudili 11705

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2 Bhakta Gauda 12760
3 Chandrma Gauda 11965
4 Hiramani Pujari 13521
5 Pratama Pujari 13578
6 Dasu Pujari 13587
7 Lalita Gauda 13498
8 Nabina Bhumia 13600
9 Tula Nayak 13528
10 Kamala Pujari 13513
11 Sanamati Nayak 13570
12 Mukta Bhumia 13446

7 persons of Biriguda village have also given a similar joint affidavit stating that they had never participated and got
wage.Mr shows that they have participated and got wage.

DETAILS OF WORKERS

SL NAME JOB CARD


NUMBER
1 Nila Harijan 09452
2 Radha Harijan 09436
3 Bhabana Harijan 09345
4 Tulabati Harijan 09169
5 Tulasi Harijan 09437
6 Lembubati Harijan 09439
7 Kuni Harijan 09484

Kuni Rine (JC No-09484) and Nila Harijan had openly stated in the social Audit meeting that they have not worked and
their names has been mentioned in the MR. It should be noted that the Collector present openly asked the concerned JE
about these testimony. The concerned JE had defended by saying that job cards were not distributed in the time of work
and they have adjusted by writing the name of the job cardholders.

Payment for tools: The team found that the laborers were not paid for using their own tools. The records shows new tools
were purchased for the said project on expenditure of Rs7000/-. The JE told that the tools were actually purchased but
the workers present told that they have used their own tools.

Work site facility:


1) There was no provision of Drinking water, Rest shed, First Aid.
2) There was no provision to take care of the children of women beneficiaries and people are not aware of existence of
such a provision in NREGA. Some villagers had complained that non availability of such facility prevented many women
to join the work.

Vigilance and monitoring committee:


The team found that the vigilance and monitoring committee. But the members were not aware of their duties. In the
social audit meeting Brudabati Pujari-a member of the committee, testified that she is not aware of the vigilance
and monitoring committee and another member Smt. Subarna Nayak told that she had signed in a paper as she
was told to do so by local implementing officials of Jodabandha.

Muster roll in the work site: Muster roll was not available in the work site during the work.

The facts on positive and negative sides related to the said work were supported by the villagers present in the social
audit meeting.

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PROJECT - 2
CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD FROM LOKIGUDA TO BIRIGUDA
Name of the work : Construction of road from Lokiguda to Biriguda
Work Code : 2411017/Rc-cd-17168
Length of road : 1500 Meter
Beneficiaries from : Biriguda, Lokiguda
Implementing Agency : Gram Panchayat
Total Estimate : 5, 00,000/-
Total Sanctioned : 5, 00,000/-
Financial Year : 2006-07
Work started : 29/11/06()
Work completed : 26/03/07
Total No 0f Labour : 183 (As Per MR)
Total Man Days : 4463 (As Per MR)
Total Wage : 4,00,963/- (As Per MR)

Note: As per the utilization certificate, the work started on 29/11/06 and completed on 26/03/07, but as per the MR
(No 138006 to 138009) the work stated on August 1 and the Pakhwada completed on August 10 2007. The
reasons behind could not be ascertained.

Differences in Plan & Estimate and Actual

Man-days created Wage of labor Material used


(Total cost – paid to labor)
According to Actually created According to According to According to Actually
plan & estimate basing on muster plan & estimate muster roll plan & estimate
roll (actual paid)
5630 4463 309854 400963 190146 99037

Muster roll verification

The volunteers started their operation in the field just to cross check and to verify. Sixteen MR has been used for the said
work and the work took and as per the MR, 183 workers were employed and 4463 man days has been created and total
wage paid was Rs. 4,00,963/-. The volunteers were able to interact with 128 laborers during the process of verification,
who (According to MR) have worked in the said work. The team found that one Labourer was no more during the work
and his name had been included in the MR.

Details

SL Category NUMBER OF WAGE Actual labour payment Difference of wage


WORKERS PAYMENT AS between MR and
PER MR Labour statement

1 Not worked 63 94500 0 94500


2 Dead at the 1 2090 0 2090
time of work
3 Paid less 65 2,27,500 59750 167750
then the MR
4 Team Could 54 NA NA NA
not met

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Total 183 324090 59750 264340

Calculation of probable expenditure on wage payment

Particular According to Labor statement


muster roll Wage Got Wage Not Got Out comes in percentage

Payment of wage to Rs324090/- Rs 59750/- Rs264340/- • Actual wage payment made


the 129 laborer
(Note: The wage of 59750 ÷ 324090 ×100 = 18.43%
one dead person has
also been included) • Payment not made

100-18.43 = 81.57% (Appx 88%)

Remark
On payment of wage :
According to the statement of the labor, 65 people have worked on that work and received only
Rs.59750/- as wage, which is only 18.43 % of the total wage mentioned in the muster roll (Including the
dead labour) in the name of the labor. The Rest 81.57 % has not paid, directly or indirectly to the said
labor.

According to muster roll 183 labors has been employed and their wage mentioned in muster roll is Rs.4,00,963/-. And in
119 (One dead in the time of work) sample labor only Rs.59750/- has been paid, in fact which should be Rs3, 24,090/-.
So, if all these data is taken into consideration. Then

1. The total amount which has paid to the labor in this work =

Rs59750 ÷ Rs324090× Rs400963 = Rs. 73922.48(Rs73922/-)

(N.B: Rs.73922.48 is 18.43% of the total wage paid Rs.400963)

2. The total amount not paid to the labor in this work =

Rs.400963 - Rs 73922= Rs.3, 27,041/-

(N: B: Rs 3, 27,041 is appx 81.57% of the total wage paid)

At last it is concluded that only 18.43% wage money has paid directly to the worked laborer (i.e., Rs.73922/- ) and
81.57% of total wage money has not paid to the laborer(i.e. Rs.3,27,041/-).

MUSTER ROLL VERIFICATION

During the process of muster roll verification, the social audit team has got number of discrepancies. The discrepancies
includes

• Name of workers included in the MR who have never worked and paid. For example 27 workers of Loukiguda have
claimed that they have never worked but their names are mentioned in the MR.

• Some workers have worked but paid less then the MR by increasing the days of work and wages paid in MR. Even
the workers were paid less then they were promised. It should be noted that the labourers were not aware of the
minimum wage as per the Government rules. While discussing this matter in Palli Sabha, the team found that the
labourer were paid @25 to 30 though they were promised wage @45.
• Some workers had actually worked but there is no mention in MR about them.

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The team as mentioned earlier have found number of discrepancies while verifying MR. To justify all the discrepancies,
the volunteers have sufficient evidence as they have collected affidavits of the following persons and some of them
openly admitted them in the public hearing. Details on the affidavits are mentioned below

A) Twenty seven persons of Lukiguda have given a joint Affidavit stating that they have never worked and have never
received money. The MR shows that they have worked and have got wage.

DETAILS OF WORKERS

JOB
CARD
SL NAME NUMBER
1 Damai Bhumia 13459
2 Kesab Pujari 13491
3 Mana Pujari 13439
4 Mukta pujari 13439
5 Narasing Nayak 13531
6 Ghana Nayak 13525
7 Buduri Bhumia 13471
8 Aaibari Nayak 13456
9 Manima Nayak 13525
10 Subrana Nayak 13531
11 Lachma Nayak 13423
12 Lalita Bhumia 13607
13 Daimati Nayak 13456
14 Mukta Bhumia 13446
15 Brundabati Pujari 13567
16 Bhanumati Bhumia 13604
17 Lalita Gauda 13498
18 Lambudhar Nayak 13474
19 Dhanamati Bhumia 13582
20 Madhu Jani 13611
21 Sunadai Nayak 13570
22 Kamala Nayak 13474
23 Badi Nayak 13574
24 Balikeswar Nayak 13614
25 Damu Bhumia 13496
26 Damu Pujari 13436
27 Damuni Pujari 13436

B) 4 persons of Lukiguda village who were members of vigilance committee have given an affidavit stating that they have
signed the report of the concerned work without knowing the contents. This joint affidavit is given by
1. Rati Bhumia
2. Dhanpati Gauda
3. Mahadev Nayak
4. Smt brundabati pujari

C) Sixteen persons of Lukiguda village have given a joint affidavit on following facts
1. No rest facility was made during the work.
2. No payments made as rents of using own tools.

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3. Palli Sabha was not summoned before the work.
4. Three persons named as Gopal Danda Sena(Boriguda village), Kami Biswanath (Boriguda village), Sanjaya
Pattnaik(Chalaguda, Boriguda village) one day called all the villagers at 12 noon and informed that a road work
has been sanctioned and informed that workers would get RS 45/- for each “KHALA” (10*10*1). After 8 days of
work, workers were paid from Rs25/- to Rs35/- for each “KHALA”. Two persons known as Naga and Kasi were
making payment in the presence of the above mentioned persons. This low payments had led to quarrel and
still the workers were not paid as per the rate communicated earlier.

Details of the workers who have given the joint affidavit are mentioned below

DETAILS OF WORKERS

SL NAME JOB CARD


NUMBER
1 Sundra Bhumia 13600
2 Madhab nayak 13549
3 Jagabandhu Pujare 13538
4 Jaldre Bhumia 13556
5 Mukand Nayak 13528
6 Nepal Nayak 13477
7 Damu Pujare 13436
8 Raju Pujare 13513
9 Dhanapati Nayak 13582
10 Lekhi Pujare 13578
11 Ganapati Nayak 13570
12 Laxman Bhumia 13518
13 Dambu Bhumia 13496
14 Bhuban nayak 13491
15 Gupta Pujare 13587
16 Sadan Bhumia 13544

Time of wage payment: The laborers had told that the wages are paid weekly by a group of 4 persons who, as per the
workers, have employed them.

Tools and Implements: No Rent for using own tools was given to the workers though workers had used their own tools.
(Affidavit discussed earlier)

Work site facility: There was no provision of Drinking water, Rest shed, First Aid. (Affidavit discussed earlier). There was
no provision to take care of the children of women employees and people are not aware of existence of such a provision
in NREGA. Some villagers had complained that non availability of such facility prevented many women to join the work.

Vigilance committee: The social audit team, when contacted the members of vigilance committee, found that they are not
aware of the work. They claimed that they have signed the concerned work report though they are not aware of the
contents. It should be noted that no effort was also made by the officers to communicate the contents of the report.
Muster roll in the work site: Muster roll was not available in the work site

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PROJECT – 3
CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD FROM JADABANDHA TO JHANKARGUDA
Name of the work : Construction of road from Jadabandha to Jhankarguda
Length of road : 1400 Meter
Beneficiaries from : Jadabandha, Pandasguda, Bichalguda , Khutaguda
Implementing Agency : Gram Panchayat
Total Estimate : 3, 48,000/-
Total Sanctioned : 3, 48,000/-
Financial Year : 2006-07
Work started : 16/12/06
Work completed : 23/03/07
Total No 0f Labour : 183 (As per MR)
Total Man Days : 3312
Total Wage : 2, 83,332/-

Plan & estimate Expenses as per records Actual


(In Rupees) (In Rupees) (In Rupees)

Dug belling in Wage as per MR 2,83,332 Wage 72352


triangular section of
0.5m trench 4221 Royalty 58078 Royalty 58078

Earth work 21456 TC Board 2500 TC Board Not sure

Earth work in hard soil Transportation of 5400 Transportation of


within initial lead & lift material material Not sure
including rough
dressing 3,14,685 Shed 2000 Shed 0

TC Board 1500

Temporary shed 1665

VLL 4500

Total 3,48,000 Total 3,51,310 Total 1,30,430

Note: The team could not ascertain the actual expenses on TC board and transportation of material couldn’t be ascertained. No
expense on shed was made as no shed was constructed.

DIFFERENCES IN PLAN & ESTIMATE AND ACTUAL

Man-days created/Sanctioned Wage of labor Material used


(Total cost – paid to labor)
According to As per muster According to As per muster According to Actual
plan & estimate roll plan & estimate roll plan & estimate

5138 3312 282590 283332 65410 64668

Muster roll verification

Sixteen MR has been used for the said work and as per the MR, 183 workers were employed and 3312 man days has
been created. The volunteers were able to interact with 127 laborers during the process of verification, who (According to

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MR) have worked in the said project. The team also found that names of persons have been included who were dead at
the time of work.

Details

SL Category NUMBER OF WAGE Actual labour payment Difference of wage


WORKERS PAYMENT AS between MR and
PER MR Labour statement

1 Not worked 94 105536 0 105536


2 Dead at the 3 3550 0 3550
time of work
3 Paid less 33 58382 42765 15617
then the MR
4 Team Could 53 NA NA NA
not met
Total 183 167468 42765 124703

Calculation of probable expenditure on wage payment

Particular According to Labor statement


muster roll Wage Got Wage Not Got Out comes in percentage

Payment of wage to Rs167468/- Rs 42765/- Rs124703/- • Actual wage payment made


the 130laborer
(Note-Team met 127 42765÷ 167468 ×100 = 25.53%
workers and 3 were
dead ) • No payment of wage made

100-25.53 = 74.47%

Remarks On payment of wage :


According to the statement of the labor, 33 people have worked on that work and received only
Rs.42765/- as wage, which is only 25.33% of the total wage mentioned in the muster roll in the name
of the labor. The Rest 74.47 % has not paid, directly or indirectly to the said labor.

According to muster roll 183 labors has been employed and their wage mentioned in muster roll is Rs.283332/-. And in
130 (Including the dead) sample labor only Rs.42765/- has been paid, in fact which should be Rs1, 67,468/-. So, if all
these data is taken into consideration. Then

1. The total amount which has paid to the labor in this work =

Rs42765 ÷ Rs167468× Rs283332 = Rs. 72352.29(Rs72352)

(Rs.72352.29 is 25.53% of the total wage paid Rs.288832)

2. The total amount not paid to the labor in this work =

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Rs.288832 - Rs 72352 = Rs.216480/-

( 216480 is 74.47% of the total wage paid)

Conclusion of the team on wage payment

In this project only 25.53% wage money has paid directly to the worked laborer (i.e, Rs.72352/- ) and 74.47% of
total wage money has not paid to the laborer(i.e. Rs.216480-)

MUSTER ROLL VERIFICATION

During the process of muster roll verification, the social audit team has got number of discrepancies. The discrepancies
includes
• Name of workers included in the MR who have never worked and paid. For example 14 workers of Janiguda have
told the team that they had never worked at all.
• Some workers have worked but paid less then the MR by increasing the days of work and wages paid in MR.
• Some workers had actually worked but there is no mention in MR about them. Even people of Janiguda have
submitted an affidavit regarding this.
• Names of dead persons(Dead in the time of work) are included in MR.

The evidence gathered by the volunteers was well supported by the following persons and some of them openly admitted
that in the public hearing. Details on the affidavits are mentioned below

A) Nine persons of Pandasguda have given a joint Affidavit stating that they have never worked and have never received
money. The MR shows that they have worked and have got wage.

DETAILS OF WORKERS

SL NAME JOB CARD


NUMBER
1 Omudi Mudali 11705
2 Basudev pujari 11684
3 Giridhar Jani 11677
4 Bhagabati jani 11677
5 Kamuku Jani 11929
6 Chandramani Disari 11886
7 Ketaki Disari 11766
8 Debaki Goud 11820
9 Hara Gaud 11820

B) Seventeen persons of Khuntaguda village have also given a similar joint affidavit stating that they had never
participated and got wage. MR shows that they have participated and got wage. Names of the villagers are mentioned
below

1. Gobardhan Harijan
2. Harihar Harijan
3. Nabaghan Pujari
4. Balaram Harijan
5. Maker Padhani
6. Parsu Harijan
7. Premanda Pujari
8. Manika Bisoi
9. Debaki Bisoi

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10. Anusuia Bisoi
11. Jema Pujari
12. Sabitri Harijan
13. Laxmi Nayak
14. Purusottam Nayk
15. Jayanta Padhani
16. Rukmini Padhani
17. Dalimba Pujari

Tools and Implements: No Rent for using own tools was given to the workers though workers had used their own tools.

Time of wage payment: The workers were paid in every week during work.

Muster roll in the work site: Muster roll was not available in the work site.

Physical verification of the work


On physical verification of the road the team found that the road is less in length then as per the sanctioned length
Five persons namely
1. Dibakar Muduli
2. Raghunath Jani
3. Mana Jani
4. Somnath Jani
5. Pravakar Jani
Have given a joint affidavit stating that the road length is 1000 meter. (Not 1400 meter as per the estimate and
sanctioned).

Work site facility:


There was no provision of Drinking water, Rest shed, Crèche and First Aid. It should be noted that the government
records shows that Rs2000/- was paid for construction of rest shed.

Vigilance committee: The social audit team came to know that a vigilance committee was formed for the said work but the
committee was not given any information regarding estimate, length of the road, rate of wage etc.
Board: The TC board was constructed during the work and not before starting of work.

Panelist Note

The social audit team, in their presentation on the works undertaken has found many discrepancies. They were
discussed and the officials present were given their version.

Some workers had not worked at all and their names had been included in the MR and some workers have done job and
their names have been not included in the MR. As mentioned earlier, Kuni Harijan and Nila Harijan had given testimony
stating that they have not worked and their names have been included in the MR. The defense of the concerned Junior
Engineer was “it was done to adjust some worker who had not got the job card”. He also told that the job cards were not
issued to many at that time and thus the aim was to give job to non job card holders. The collector present had
acknowledged that some wrong things have been done.

In the discussion on vigilance committee, it was found that the people were not aware of the roles and responsibility of
the said committee. Even the members of the said committee were not aware of their duty and responsibility. A testimony
was given by Mr. Brundabati Pujari gave a testimony regarding this fact. Mr Subarna Nayak had told that he has signed
the report as he was told to sign by a low level official.

In the discussion on non payment for tools , the JE defended by saying that they had purchased the tools. Two villagers
protested it by saying that they have never got tools and had used their own tools.

On the issue of mentioning the length of roads more in official records then the actual, the JE defended by saying that this

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was done by mistake.

The people are informed by the administration that a large amount of money (about Rs 150 crore) is going to be
sanctioned for the implementation of NREGA. As per the administrative version, they have shortage of manpower in
implementing NREGA.

The NGO and the implementing officials present were of the view that people should be more aware and cooperate in the
process of implementation of NREGA. The social audit convened by the Gram Sabha ended with a vote of thanks.

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