This project is aimed at facilitating NREGA implementation in Visakha and Srikakulam districts of AP. The NREG Act guarantees 100 day minimum work in one year for every family who registers in this program. The men and women will get equal wages. The work will be give within 15 days of demand, if not they will get un-employment allowance. The persons who are getting employment will get at least the minimum wages under Minimum wages act of 1948. This project will cover 5 Mandals in Visakha dist- Anakapalli , Kasimkota, Chodavaram, Bucchaya peta, and Ravikamacham.

The project has three main objectives for effective implementation of NREGA.

1. Several rural student youth come from villages to the Mandal headquarters to study in junior and degree collages. This project aims to create awareness on NREGA among the youth and motivate them to render services like writing job applications for workers. These services will give the students an opportunity to interact meaningfully with their community. Any student youth with a desire to work for village and community development issues will be given further guidance and support. The program will also allow for students studying social work to go on NREGA field visits and workshops with support from their faculty.
2. A group of 20 youth volunteers ( both men and women) will work to monitor the effective imlementation of NREGA program. Each volunteer will cover a minimum 5 houses and monitor 50 registered card holders in each village. Each volunteer will ensure the job card holding persons get 100 days work.  The volunteers will assist in writing job application for registration , identifying works that need to be carried out immediately, as well as monitor the effective implementation of the NREGA program.Such an intensive approach will not only enormously benefit the village families but also will help us follow the program systematically in a few villages .The work of these youth volunteers in turn will be monitored by monthly meetings, reports from volunteers and district coordinators of the program.
3. NREGA public awareness program on critical issues through street theater and documentary films. The cultural team will cover 200 villages, of which 100 will be the villages where the youth volunteers will be working.

Achievements

Activities are set to begin in April 2008. Nisarga, the NGO executing this project has had prior success in monitoring NREGA implementation in Chithoor district of Andhra Pradesh and are hoping to build on it in Visakha district. This space will be updated as and when there is an update from volunteers on the ground.