Aajeevika [National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM]

Agenda Items for Performance Review Committee MeetingJanuary 2015

I. Status of Transition of States to N.R.L.M and sanction of Annual Action Plans (AAP) for FY 2014-15 of Mission States

PRC Agenda: HR-IB-CB 1. Feedback on Previous Meeting Minutes

Issue Action Taken Action PendingParticipatory Identification of the Poor:All State Missions need to focus on Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP), particularly in villages where Village Organizations have been formed in Resource and Intensive blocks. The P.I.P process will have to be communitized and the C.R.P s will play a critical role. All senior staff of the Mission along with the Secretary should participate in the PIP process.

Revision in the PIP strategy – PIP to be conducted in two stages:

o The first stage would be conducted by the CRPs during the mobilization drive. The second stage would be when VO comes into being, in the village/hamlet,

Jharkhand has been nurtured as a resource state for PIP - 11 Master Resource Persons have been trained for PIP in the state

MP is training its staff in PIP

In line with this, PIP advisory is being finalized to be sent to states in January 2015. PIP roll-out plans have to be made in all states.

Vision of Resource Block (R.B):State Missions implementing resource block strategy from the last two years should prepare a 5 year vision of each of their Resource Blocks. Each R.B should be seen as a training centre for the new blocks.

Resource Block Strategy (implementation and way forward) discussed in the National Annual Writeshop with five states that have completed at least 2 years of the resource block strategy (Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh)

Advisory on the protocol for deepening resource block work has been issued to the SRLMs by NMMU

The Resource Block Visioning needs to be completed, in line with the discussions in the writeshop and the subsequent advisory.

Resource block to intensive block roll out:Protocols and planning for roll out of intensive blocks with the help of internal CRPs should be worked out.

Advisory has been issued to the SRLMs

Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh identified new blocks for expansion, implementation to begin by March 2015

Maharashtra, MP and Rajasthan to move into this phase in 2015-16

Writeshop:i. National writeshop - 11-18

National Annual Writeshop for 13 NRLP states (plus three advanced

NW Regional Writeshop is

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November 2014) at NIRD Hyderabad;

ii. Regional write-shop – November/December at Kohima and Srinagar for NE and NW States.

State Mission Directors should be present during the last 3-4 days of the write-shop. Rationalization of HR structure at DMMU/BMMU and SMMU would be one of the prime agenda for the write-shop.

states AP, Telangana and Kerala, 1 UT – Puducherry) held during 12-18 November.o 200 participants (comprising of

COOs, state mission managers, district mission managers) took part

o SMDs of 8 SRLMs participated in the last three days

o 1-2 Representatives each from other states also participated

North east Writeshop was held during 12-17 December; Northwest Writeshop to be held during Feb, 2015

Writeshop agreed on the need for rationalising HR structure in the SRLM

Follow-up workshop on HR Rationalisation was held with SRLMs in December

Post writeshop follow-up Advisories including on Communitization and HR Rationalization are being issued to states.

scheduled at Chandigarh during in Feb 2015.

Adoption of HR Manual:Model HR Manual circulated by NMMU may be customized, adopted and implemented by State Missions. All States to pay attention on improving HR hygiene factors so that the field teams are motivated and deliver quality results.

SRLMs have adapted the model HR Manual, however only 4 SRLMs (Jharkhand, Haryana, Bihar and Odisha) have got it approved by their EC.

Revised Model HRM has been discussed and fine-tuned at the writeshop. Advisory to adapt the model draft HRM with due approval from their ECs, would be sent to states in January.

Model SHG Act:Towards ‘SHG Act’ – UNDP Round Table is scheduled in October. State Mission may also have similar consultation at their level and provide their suggestions and recommendations.

Roundtable on legal framework for SHGs and their federations was held on 9 Oct 2014.

Conclusions:o Existing legal framework (MACS

Act, Societies Act, Mutual Benefit Trust Act, etc.) may be continued to be used to register SHG federations.

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o SHGs may continue to remain as informal bodies.

o States need to come with a state-specific way forward in 2015.

Capacity Building Missions to States:NMMU would be planning to field Capacity Building Missions to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Odisha. Detailed Mission objective and scheduled would be shared with the States, soon.

Plan for the Missions has been outlined and shared with these states; NMMU to field CB Missions over 6-8 rounds to each SRLM in a one-year period

One round has been conducted in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha and two rounds have been completed in Jharkhand and Rajasthan

This will be initiated in Bihar and Maharashtra in February 2015.

Action Taken by the States Jharkhand and Rajasthan have held

state-level writeshops. Key points from these writeshops fed into the national Writeshop.

MP, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan are in the process of developing their comprehensive CB Plans.

2. Core Issues Causing Problems in Implementation of the Schemes including financial issues, State specific

2.1 Capacity Building of Staff: Capacity Building of staff of the SRLMs has emerged as an area of concern in most SRLMs. The states need to develop a capacity building framework and lay down the architecture to implement this framework. Engagement of resource pools, capacity building agencies and resource agencies has been found lacking. Capacity building modules (beyond induction), calendars and a mechanism to monitor capacity building need to be developed in the states. CB Missions from N.R.L.M to states (as in Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP, Rajasthan, Odisha, Maharshtra and Bihar) would front-end this issue and states would be supported in taking this agenda forward.

2.2 HR Issues: Only four SRLMs – Jharkhand, Bihar, Haryana and Odisha have HR Manuals in place. In other states, the HR Manual is in the draft stage and is pending approval from their respective ECs. Even in states that have a HR Manual in place, HR hygiene factors are not satisfactory. Further, some SRLMs (eg. Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh) are facing difficulties/bottlenecks from their respective State governments in procuring the services of a HR agency. It has also been found that there is a lack of parity in the remunerations, TA/DA norms and performance incentives between professionals

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who have hired for the same position from different sources (government and open market).

Area Responsibility and Collapse of Specialisation: Given that the focus of NRLM in the initial stages is solely on mobilisation and institution building, the SRLMs need to break the tendency of the staff to work on specific thematic areas initially. It has been found that staff are not able to provide quality time to the implementation in the blocks due to the demands of their thematic work. Collapse of specialisation of SRLM staff and adoption of area responsibility must be done immediately. JDs of the staff need to be tailored accordingly.In this context, national writeshop has revised the model draft HRM. This is being further fine-tuned based on the discussions in Communitization and HR Rationalization workshops in December 2014 at Delhi and the advisory would be sent to SRLMs in January 2015.

2.3 Disbursement of Funds to the Community: The CIF to eligible SHGs is supposed to be released within 15 days of preparation of their Micro Credit Plans (MCPs). SRLMs are taking much more time in approving the MCP and releasing the fund. Further, SHG Federations (VOs) are coming into existence and the Vulnerability Reduction Fund needs to be released to them. VRF is meant to address the specific vulnerabilities of members or the vulnerable people in the village. The CIF repaid by the SHGs to VOs need to be re-lent to SHGs against MCPs. The SHGs of the vulnerable including PwD need to be released Revolving Fund and CIF, with slightly differentiated triggers, norms and protocols. In view of this, an advisory on Funds to the Community has been issued to SRLMs in December 2014 for implementation with immediate effect.

2.4 Communitisation of Interventions: National writeshop has discussed the Communitization in NRLM. Communitization includes Community Institutions taking over the Mission activities as early as possible; augmented availability and deployment of various kinds of community cadres, accountable to community institutions; reduced but competent integrating generalist Mission HR. This has emerged as priority. 2015 can be considered as year of Communitization in NRLM. Accordingly, SRLMs must focus on building the capacities of the community institutions to take over the responsibilities currently being handled by SRLM staff (at the block level to begin with). The pace of developing community cadres is lagging behind the pace at which the Mission is growing in most states. This would affect the quality of support provided to the SHGs and federations and the sustainability of these institutions in the long run. Also, Mission HR needs to be rationalized as per the revised Mission Structures with generalist integration orientation and area responsibility. These HR need to spend most of their time in field (including night stays in the villages) in mentoring the cutting-edge staff, community cadres and community institutions for total communitization in due course.

2.5 PIP: The SRLMs (except Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh) do not have a concrete policy on PIP or a plan on how to roll out the strategy in the state. Jharkhand has trained its staff on PIP and in the process of creating a resource pool for PIP while MP has started the process of capacity building of its staff. A PIP advisory based on the discussions in national writeshop and the experience in Jharkhand and MP would be issued in January 2015. Other states need to develop a plan for rolling-out PIP, in line with the advisory.

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2.6 Recruitment of Additional CEO/COO: Recruitment of a seasoned development professional from the market as a deputy to the SRLM CEO (Additional CEO/COO) to lead and guide the programme team(s) is pending many states except Jharkhand. This is a critical gap.

2.7 Tenure of the CEO: In many states, CEO with reasonably long tenure (say three years) is still a big gap. This is affecting the results, quality and pace in SRLMs. This needs to be remedied.

2.8 Externally Aided Projects with NRLM: In states where Externally Aided Projects (EAPs) exist (Rajasthan, MP, Odisha, Tamil Nadu), the SRLMs have found it difficult to dissolve the differences between the EAPs and NRLM. Further, some of these EAPs would be wrapping-up and the blocks need to be integrated into NRLM. The states need to think through for harmony while the EAPs are there and for integration thereafter.

3. Guidelines/Policy Matters/Support to States3.1 Deepening Resource Blocks: CRP rounds and Senior CRP rounds would continue in

the Resource Blocks till all villages are covered, VOs and CLFs come into being and strengthened. The SRLM, with the support of the NRO would identify and nurture social capital – Women Activists, Resource Bookkeepers and MCP trainers in good numbers. These cadres would be employed to deepen activities in the Resource Blocks, as well as to scale up NRLM in the newer blocks. (Resource Block Progress- Annexure-II)

3.2 Exposure visits to the NRO would be necessary for the office bearers of newly formed VOs and CLFs. Block staff need to visit the NRO to learn best practices in VO and CLF management. Exposure visits for branch managers of the local banks and other stakeholders is necessary for ensuring their cooperation.

An advisory on deepening Resource Blocks has been issued to SRLMs in the first week of January 2015.

3.3 Transition to Intensive Blocks: Each Resource Block which has completed 2.5 years of CRP rounds is expected to generate internal CRPs to service 10 blocks in the next 12 months. The five states - Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan - would be moving into this phase in 2015-16.

The new blocks would be identified keeping mind the capacity of the Resource Block to service that block (in terms of availability of CRPs and other social capital). Further, the SRLM would prepare timelines for completion of work in an intensive block.

The SRLMs would post the requisite staff: Block Mission Managers, Cluster Coordinators and one dedicated anchor at the district level to handle scaling up strategy in the intensive blocks. The SRLM would also engage in the capacity building of its staff (facilitated by the NRO) in the expansion strategy.

An advisory on expanding into intensive blocks with social capital from Resource Blocks has been issued to SRLMs in the first week of January 2015.

3.4 Communitisation and HR Rationalization: Based on the experience of the three years of NRLM, it has been realized that Communitisation is critical for NRLM to scale-up, for it to be a real movement and for the institutions to be sustainable.

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Communitisation would help the mission to lay a strong foundation for sustainable institutions as the community cadre would be able to give more time and a better hand holding support with more accountability towards the community and its institutions. 2015 would be considered as year of Communitization in NRLM. This would imply that the community institutions and community cadre would need to take over the activities presently handled by the Mission at various levels (entire gamut of activities from identifying poor to building capacities to layering), community cadres augmented in large numbers and HR of the SRLM is rationalized with generalist integration orientation and area responsibility.

Accordingly, HR Rationalization at the state, district and block levels has emerged as a clear and immediate agenda. The existing staff at the district and state levels must concentrate on implementing and deepening interventions in the Resource Blocks and expanding to intensive blocks with social capital from Resource Blocks. In this critical stage, specializations at the state, district and block level need to be collapsed and all staff should have area responsibility as the primary responsibility. They need to be in the field most of the time, including night field stays in the villages, being with and listening to community. Job Descriptions need to be revised and Performance Management Systems need to be established accordingly.

Therefore, SRLMs need to freeze any further recruitment and focus on lateral or vertical movement of the staff which is inducted, trained and committed in NRLM processes. SRLMs must avoid having staff for layering initiatives in advance at the state and district levels. Recruitment of these positions should correspond to layering interventions being introduced in the blocks, starting with Resource Blocks. ( Human Resource Status (Thematic Area) is at Annexure-I)

3.5 Community Institutions to Serve as Resource Organisations: The community institutions, community cadre and CRPs have played a leading role in implementing NRLM in 18 States so far. Keeping this in mind, National Writeshop has recommended that the CLFs/BLFs be recognized as Resource Organisations, in addition to the 4 advanced SRLMs (AP, Telangana, Kerala and Bihar) identified as National Resource Organisations (NROs). To begin with, the Mandal Samakhyas/Mahasamakhyas/Zilla Samakhyas serving the communities in various states through the SRLM-NROs could be recognized as National Resource Organizations.

Initially, the SRLMs would enter into a 3-year agreement with the CBOs - Mahasamakhyas or CLFs or their equivalent in the advanced (NRO) states to deepen NRLM interventions in Resource Blocks and to prepare the CLFs/BLFs in each Resource Block to service the mobilization and capacity needs of 15-20 newer blocks. Over the next 3 years, as the CLFs/BLFs in the Resource Blocks mature, the SRLMs must utilize their services for scaling up within the state. The federations would graduate from being local resource organisations to State Resource Organisations (SROs), National Resource Organisations (NROs) and in the future even International Resource Organisations (IROs), as the scale of their operations grows.

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Advisory would be issued to states in line with this strategy/policy, as a step in the direction of enhanced communitization in NRLM.

3.6 Participatory Identification of Poor in Two Stages: PIP would be done periodically (in several stages). The first stage would be conducted by the CRPs during the mobilization drive as part of the CRP rounds. CRPs, having experienced poverty themselves and having been trained in identifying poor are capable of conducting the PIP process. Additionally, they would be given some training in the PIP method to bolster their skills. The second stage PIP would be conducted by the VO when it comes into being in the village/hamlet, to include any left out poor, if any. VO would also take over the responsibility of conducting the PIP at regular intervals subsequently.

4. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance to States4.1 Capacity Building: The states are including a capacity building plan as an integral

part of their AAP 2015-16. The plan should consist of a capacity building calendar for each level (community, community cadres and staff at various levels), implementation plan and a corresponding budget. The capacity building plan will be closely monitored by NMMU.

4.2 Self-Reliant SRLMs: NMMU has initiated bi-monthly capacity building missions (6-8 rounds) to the SRLMs. The objective of these Missions is to make the SRLMs self-reliant over a period of one year in meeting the capacity building needs of its staff, community cadre and community institutions. At present, NMMU is focusing on 7 states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan); more states will be included in this process as the scale of implementation grows in these states. Through the Capacity Building missions, NMMU guides the states to develop a capacity building framework and create/strengthen the capacity building architecture required to implement the framework. The expected outcomes of these Missions are as follows:

SRLM to depend lesser on NMMU to meet its HR & Capacity Building needs HR Manual of state – including staff structure, performance management

system, delegation of power, fitment and de-selection policy in place CB framework created and implemented in the state Training calendars for state, district and block staff prepared Resource pools at state and district levels are in place to support capacity

building Training modules and other material developed Learning forums established in the SRLMs

4.3 Pools of Resource Persons and Capacity Building Resource Agencies: A pool of 100+ resource persons at the national level has been prepared by NIRD/NMMU, based on mutual exploration and assessment of their thematic interest and usefulness, and they have been oriented to NRLM. The resource persons have been graded for paying resource fee based on the grade. The resource person list based on the geographic and thematic interests of the resource persons is dynamic and would be updated regularly. SRLMs/SIRDs have been asked to develop their own State Resource Pools (SRP) to meet the capacity building needs. These State pools would be inducted by SRLMs with support from the national resource pool. Also, a

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framework for taking the services of Capacity Building Resource Agencies has been approved and the services of enlisted/empanelled CB Agencies could be taken up by SRLMs on partnership basis as per the framework. CB Agencies and other Training/Management Institutes are coming up with custom-tailored programs for various levels/aspects in NRLM so that SRLMs can depute participants accordingly to meet the CB needs at various levels.

NMMU and SRLMs will focus on increasing this list of resource persons and capacity building agencies in terms of both numbers and span of expertise to meet the increasing demands of the SRLMs/community. The procedure for engaging the resource persons and capacity building agencies would be made simpler to ensure that their services are used easily.

Technical Assistance to SRLMs: NMMU has begun to move from individual state anchors to creating a state anchor team for each state. The state anchor continues to play the pivotal role in supporting the state individually and build a state anchor team with NMMU members, SMMU members from select SRLMs and the Resource Pool at the national level in providing technical assistance to the SRLMs on a more regular (monthly/quarterly) basis.

NMMU would facilitate strategic planning workshops in SRLMs which have completed their visioning exercise (viz. Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan). Further, SRLMs, with support from NMMU (state anchor teams) would build resource pools at the state level and ensure that all staff at district and block levels are provided with all the basic inputs (book-keeping, micro-planning, participation skills, direct training skills, management (self, team, and project) skills, and leadership skills, gender sensitization, poverty-vulnerability-leadership understanding, NRLM processes, 10-year HH, SHG, VO, CLF and Block Processes) and the vision and strategic plan would be taken to the community and staff at all levels. Also, bottom-up planning would be initiated.

Monthly/bi-monthly video/skype conferencing and bi-monthly review meetings with State Missions would also facilitate technical support to States.

4.4 Model Manuals: The Model Human Resource Manual, Model Community Operational Manual (COM), Capacity Building (Community, Community Cadres and Mission Staff) Modules, and Model Finance Management Manual were revised during the National Annual Writeshop. Model Performance Management System is being developed and tested. NMMU would issue the advisories on how to adapt these manuals in January/February 2015. The states need to adapt these model manuals to their local context, in consultation with the key stakeholders wherever necessary, with due approval of the competent authority in the SRLMs.

4.6 Timelines for Submission of AAP

1. NRLP states are required to submit draft AAP 2015-16 by 31st January 2015, while NRLM States are required to submit their AAP by 15th February 20151. Thereafter, MORD would review the AAP and suggest changes, if found necessary. On the basis of the changes

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suggested, states would submit a revised AAP by 28th Feb 2014 after seeking necessary approval from the competent authority. The MoRD would then undertake appraisal of the AAPs and place them before the Empowered Committee for approval. The final approvals are likely to be given by 15th March 2015.

II. Financial Inclusion and Building Access to Finance1. Feedback on previous meeting minutes

Issue Action Taken by States Action Pending with StatesEnsure adherence to timelines on ‘Capitalization of individual SHG’

-Delay in disbursement of Revolving Fund (RF) to SHGs has been minimized

-Delay in disbursement of Community Investment Fund (CIF) on account of delay in preparation of Micro Credit Plan still exist

-West Bengal, Karnataka, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, UP and all North-Eastern states have not disbursed any CIF to SHGs

Prepare bank branch wise credit linkage plan

Monitor achievement of Year Wise ‘Block Bank Linkage Outcomes’.

-All States have finalized Credit Linkage Targets with respective SLBC and set District wise and Bank wise credit targets

-Monitoring of SHG Bank Linkage being done based on reports placed on SHG Bank Linkage portal

-All states to take up Bank Branch wise credit linkage plan

Capacity Building of staff on SHG Bank Linkage

Conduct Training and Immersion of Bank Branch Managers to best practice sites

-SRLMs have conducted training programme and immersion for staff on SHG Bank Linkage

- Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, MP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Orissa, Bihar has established arrangements for conduct of training and immersion of bank branch managers

-Capacity of SRLM staff particularly at district and block level needs be reinforced with supplementary training

-Remaining states are required to make necessary arrangements for training of bankers

Place ‘Bank Mitra’ with bank branches in intensive blocks to facilitate smooth linkage of SHGs with banks

-Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, MP, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Orissa and Assam have conducted training of Bank mitra

-Maharashtra and Gujarat to place bank mitra with bank branches

-Other States to make necessary arrangement for placement of bank mitra

Establish Community Based Recovery Mechanism (CBRM) in all bank branches in Resource & Intensive

- Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have initiated the process for CBRM in select Bank Branches

-Other States to adopt the CBRM in all bank branches in Resource and Intensive Blocks

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Issue Action Taken by States Action Pending with StatesBlocksMonitor achievement of SHG Bank Linkage and NPA through SHG Bank Linkage Portal on monthly basis; Reconcile data with SLBC on monthly basis

-Achievements for SHG Bank Linkage being monitored through SHG Bank Linkage Portal

-Manual data for RRBs and Cooperative Banks reported by Karnataka, Maharashtra, MP, Bihar, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh.

-States are required to reconcile reports placed on the SHG Bank Linkage portal with credit disbursement reports from respective SLBCs

-All other states are required to report manual data for RRBs and Cooperatives not sharing data through CBS

Conduct of BLBC, DCC and SLBC Sub-Committee meeting on a monthly/ bi-monthly basis

-SLBC Sub Committee meetings and DCC meeting are held at regular intervals

-All states are required to take steps to ensure regular BLBC meetings

Exempt stamp duty charged to Self Help Groups

-Stamp duty for SHGs is in force in Jharkhand and Nagaland

-All states are required to ensure that banks do not levy stamp duty and processing charges while documentation for loans

Evolve strategy for implementing and monitoring of Bank linkage in Non-intensive blocks

-Tamil Nadu, MP, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka have devised strategies for bank linkage in selected non-intensive blocks

Other States may also devise strategy for bank linkage in non-intensive blocks

Disbursement of Interest Subvention to SHGs in Category-II districts

-Assam, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerela, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal has initiated disbursement of Interest Subvention to SHGs in Category-II districts

-Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal to disburse Interest subvention to the remaining eligible SHGs in respective states

-All other states to initiate the process for Interest Subvention to eligible SHGs in Category-II districts

2. Issues and Challenges in implementationThe challenges faced in implementation of the programme are as follows:

i. Limited capacity of staff and community cadre to facilitate preparation of Micro Credit Plans and bank linkage documents for Self Help Groups, resulting in delay CIF release and credit linkage of SHGs.

ii. Discrepancy in figures reported on SHG Bank linkage as reported by respective SLBC, Banks (as reported on SHG Bank Linkage portal) and NABARD creates confusion and problems in monitoring. Reconciliation of SHG Bank linkage figures requires reconciliation across sources for effective monitoring and implementation.

iii. Decline in bank linkage by Public Sector Banks have resulted in decline in overall SHG credit linkage in many states.

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iv. High NPA on SHG loan (including loans sanctioned under SGSY) remains an area of concern

3. Guidelines/ Policy MattersThe following guidelines have been issued during the last quarter (Oct – Dec 2014)

i. Detailed guidelines for implementation of Interest Subvention for the year 2014-15 has been issued by RBI and NABARD

ii. Advisory issued by NMMU on Strengthening SHG Bank Linkage including placement of Bank Mitra and reduction of NPA.

iii. Tracker on SHG Bank Linkage shared with respective states and leading Public Sector Banks

iv. Common Application form for A/c opening and loan documentation of SHGs approved by Indian Bank’s Association (IBA)

4. Best PracticesThe following good practices are adopted by states:

i. Bihar has adopted a systematic approach for training of SRLM staff on Book Keeping, Micro Planning, Community Fund Management, SHG Bank Linkage etc for a period of 15 days. This is supplemented by on the job inputs by senior professionals. This has been effective to impart the basic knowledge and skill required by staff to work at the field level.

ii. Karnataka has adopted a planned approach for conducting SLBC and DLCC sub committee meetings. SRLM along with SLBC have set pre-decided dates for meetings of these forums for the entire year. Detailed agenda and all supporting reports are shared with participants prior to the meeting. This has resulted in effective conduct of the meeting and has translated into improved credit linkage in the state.

iii. Assam has demonstrated a simple but effective block level SHG Linkage planning exercise involving the SHG/ VO leaders, community cadres, SRLM staff, Bankers and Govt Officials. This has resulted in minimizing the delay in disbursal of community funds and speed up credit linkage of SHGs.

iv. Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan has made arrangements for conducting Credit Linkage camps at district level involving senior authorities from Govt and Banks. This has resulted in improved SHG credit linkage even in underserved/ difficult districts.

v. Tamil Nadu and Gujarat has adopted a comprehensive strategy for training of all bank branch managers in the state. This has contributed in apprising the bankers about the key features of NRLM.

5. Progress Update A. Roll out of the Interest Subvention SchemeCategory I districts:Progress Updates:

1. 25 Public Sector Banks have lodged claims of Rs 159.38 Cr through Canara Bank Category II districtsProgress Updates:

1. SERP, Andhra Pradesh is providing technical support to SRLMs for operationalization of the scheme in the Category II Districts, i.e. other than 150 Districts for which a dedicated web portal has been hoisted.

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2. 8 state missions have accessed the reports and transferred interest subvention amounts to eligible SHGs directly.

State wise status of disbursement of Interest Subvention in Category-I and II districts is placed at Annexure – III

B. Credit Targets:State wise achievement of SHG credit linkage is placed at Annexure – IV and SHG Bank Linkage Target for 2014-15 is at Annexure-V

6. Focus for the quarter Jan – Mar 2015:All SRLMs are required to make the following arrangements for ensuring adequate flow of

bank credit to eligible SHGs. i. Inventory on SHG Credit Linkage potential: Preparation of District wise, Block wise

inventory of SHG for Credit Linkage; Ensure preparation and submission of documents for linkage to bank branch in a time bound manner.

ii. Follow-up with Banks for disbursement: Rigorous review and follow-up with banks workout district wise, block wise, bank wise and bank branch wise on disbursement of Credit to SHGs. Organize consultation with SLBC, NABARD & Controlling offices of different banks to resolve ground level issues if any.

iii. Capacity Building: Organize State & District level workshop involving bankers, SRLM staff and other stakeholders to apprise them of the targets and evolve district specific strategies for achieving the same.

iv. SLBC, DLCC Sub committees and BLBC meetings: Regularize conduct of SLBC, DLCC sub-committee meeting and BLBC meeting.

v. Disbursal of interest subvention: Facilitate disbursement of interest subvention amount to all eligible SHGs in Category –II districts.

Review and Reconciliation of data on SHG Bank Linkage: Institutionalize an arrangement with support of SLBC to undertake monthly review (district, block, bank and branch wise) of the SHG credit linkage against set target, NPA among SHG loans based on the reports placed on the Bank Linkage portal. Discrepancy if any may be reconciled on monthly basis.

III. Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs)

6.1 Issues related to RSETIBackground As on date 581 RUDSETIs/ RSETIs are functional across the country sponsored by all the

Nationalised Banks in their respective lead Districts. Total candidates trained – from 1982-2014 is 18.14 lakhs and the number of candidates

settled is 12.06 lakhs. Percentage of settlement to trained candidates is 66%. Variety of training programmes to suit the local needs Skill coupled with EDP inputs Run by an experienced banker with emphasis on settlement with Credit linkage Practical orientation, rigorous training and extended hours of learning

6.2 Issues for discussion:Action point by State

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(i) Allotment and handing over possession of land for construction of RSETIs. List of completed projects is placed in Annexure - VI. It may be noted that as against 577 RSETIs currently functioning, construction of only 59 buildings have been completed.

(ii) Ensuring seamless reimbursement of Training cost to banksAction point by Banks(i). Director/Faculty/Office staff to move out for organising Awareness programmes

and for personal follow up of trained candidates(ii). Financial sanctions for entire year shall be made available by the Banks based on the

Annual Action Plan prepared by the RSETI and approved by LAC.(iii). Special care and attention shall be given to compilation and updating of MIS(iv). Best Practices of RUDSETIs to be meticulously followed by all RSETIs(v). Banks to ensure availability of adequate training equipment at all training

programmes at all RSETIs(vi). LAC meetings shall be convened regularly once in a quarter(vii). BLBC / DLRC/ BCC and LAC to review the performance of RSETI with special reference

to credit linkage of RSETI trained candidates and to ensure good settlement rate

6.3 Grading of RSETIs

In order to encourage a spirit of excellence amongst the RSETIs, an initiative was taken in the year 2012 to grade the RSETIs on transparent parameters. For the year 2014, grading parameters have been suitably modified to emphasize more on post training activities such as settlement of candidates and bank linkage. The grading exercise for 2013-14 has been completed and is under validation.

IV. Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme for youths [SVEP] – The overall objective of SVEP is the provide fillip to the Government’s efforts to energize and streamline economic growth by providing necessary thrust from the grass root i.e.; villages towards creation of sustainable self-employment opportunities for inclusive growth.

The key objectives of SVEP are:

A. To enable 1.82 lakh youths to set up their enterprises in its proof of concept phase by developing a sustainable model for Village Entrepreneurship promotion through an integrated IT enabled E-ecosystem consolidation approach of training and capacity building, personalized advisory services to strengthen enterprise performance and linkages with banks and financial institutions;

B. To “communitize” by strengthening the pool of village level community cadre for enterprise promotion and build the capacity of the local institutions nurtured by NRLM in aggregation and delivery of need based services to Enterprise owners in a saturation mode;

C. To bridge the gap between demand and supply side of missing ecosystem in village entrepreneurship to encourage competitive performance, innovations and appropriate service products for Village enterprises;

Implementation of SVEP will be managed by NRLM through the State Rural Livelihood Missions.

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Two routes for implementation to be followed: 1. NRO route – National Resource Organizations (NRO) recognized by NRLM that have entered

into partnerships with SRLMs for taking up pilot enterprise development initiatives to implemented SVEP in select areas. The NROs under SVEP will be Kudumbashree (Kerala State Poverty Eradication Mission) NRO, OMPLIS (Orvakkal Mandal Samakhya) NRO, EDII (Entrepreneurship Development Institute, India) NRO and the NAR (National Academy of RUDSETI) NRO.

2. PIA route – SRLMs to identify Project Implementation Agencies (PIAs) from among qualified non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, technical institutions, and community based organizations etc., to take up implementation in select areas. Selection of PIA will be done in an objective and transparent manner, following process prescribed by NRLM.

V. Livelihoods Promotions: Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP):

VIII.1 Activities undertaken & Progress Since inception of MKSP, 59 projects in 15 States have been sanctioned with a total project

outlay of Rs 822.07 Crore covering more than 28.5 lakhs Mahila Kisan (at the end of Q2 FY 2014-15).

In Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala projects are being implemented by respective State Rural Livelihoods Missions are covering all the districts and blocks of the States. In rest of the 12 States, where MKSP is being implemented, the coverage is in 181 blocks of 82 districts.

MKSP is now focusing on identifying the strategies being implemented by different PIAs for the Ultra-poor farmers through promotion of Climate change resilient eco-agriculture practices like CMSA.

Identification of the suitable agro ecological models for the ultra-poor households across the different states is the major thrust area under Farm Livelihood interventions promoted under NRLM

Restructuring of the existing projects of PIAs has been initiated with the following focus- a) Redesigning activities to suit the specific requirements of Ultra-poor households, and, b) Creating at least two livelihood opportunities for each Ultra-poor household covered.

A major drive has been taken up by NRLM in 2014 to replicate CMSA model, for the Ultra-poor households which has been developed and scaled up by SERP; across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This is a community driven model, in which, the best practitioners are trained and deployed as CRPs for seamless scaling up of the process.

Deployment of large number of Community Resource Persons (CRPs) for promotion of sustainable agro-ecological practices will be a key strategy for NRLM in primary sector livelihoods interventions across the country. This strategy will be specifically adopted to reach out to the bottom 20% of the poor women farmers.

State Missions of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Jammu Kashmir signed an MOU with SERP for rolling out Ultra-poor strategy in the resource blocks of their state. During Kharif 2014, 9 districts, 10 blocks and 80 villages were covered. More than 700 Ultra-poor households were covered in the fold.

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NRLM livestock strategy with focus on building a community owned and community managed extension architecture for the delivery of door-step extension services to rural poor households has been developed and shared with the state missions. This strategy aims to promote cost effective and improved Livestock Management practices for the Ultra-poor households. o NRLM will invest in the training and capacity building of the PashuSakhi in a continuous

manner who will form the backbone of last mile extension service.o Integration of PashuSakhi model with the sustainable agriculture model under MKSP

as well as Ultra-poor strategy roll out in the resource blocks will be promoted. A MKSP like program has been planned for the promotion of rural artisans Livelihoods and

Handloom Weavers. After several rounds of workshops with key domain experts, guidelines for this program has been prepared.

State Missions are expected to suggest best practices, in the domain of Handloom and handicrafts which can be taken up for study, funding, scale-up and replication.

Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Program is planned in 2015-16 with an annual budgetary outlay for 2015-16, at 24 crore INR (subject to approval). The states are expected to create resources for rolling out this program in their respective states.

Action Points: All the States now would come through Annual Action Plan (AAP) route for MKSP projects

from 2015 (AAP to be focused on replicating the successful models of agro ecological farming practices like Non Pesticide Management). Desk and Field appraisal of 5 projects identified by TNSRLM, has been completed.

Annual Action Plan for MKSP (AAP-MKSP) from TNSRLM has been received by this Ministry through mail. It will be taken up for approval by the E.C of the Ministry.

A workshop with the different state missions willing to submit proposals under AAP-MKSP during 2015-16 is planned in January 2015

NSO-PRADAN and N.M.M.U. team has started compilation and documentation of the existing best practices in the different States. Some of the best practices identified by NSO in West Bengal, Kerala and Jharkhand was

shared with the MKSP partners and state missions, An MoU has been signed with Digital GREEN as National Support Organisation for

Innovative Information and Communication Technology application for livelihoods Large number of audio visual training materials on agro ecological practices developed

by community members, across the country with the support of Digital Green, have been proved very useful for community led strategy for capacity building. This training strategy involving audio visual materials has already been successfully implemented in AP and Bihar.

Digital GREEN is supporting in the structuring of data collection, collation and reporting mechanisms for the MKSP PIAs. It has already engaged with MSSRF-Maharashtra, IDF-Karnataka, Green Foundation-Karnataka (MKSP PIAs) for the production of videos for different practices promoted by them.

A documentary film on Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojana is currently under production, with the support of UNDP. This film is capturing the key learnings of MKSP in different States.

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Printed communication materials like brochure, foldable material and a compilation of stories of “ best practicing community heroes” is currently under development, with the support of UNDP. These are expected to present the work done under MKSP for the larger audience.

An MIS agency has been hired and the development of web enabled MIS for Farm Livelihoods is currently underway with the support of UNDP. This MIS will be later integrated with e-NRLMS. Development of MIS is expected to be completed by the end of January, which will be

followed by a month of testing on ground. Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC) project is due to be

launched with the support from Global Environment Fund (GEF). This covers 2 states – Bihar and M.P. Ground work for the same has been completed.

A third party evaluation of all MKSP proposals is planned. For this, procurement of a suitable agency will be done before end of the FY 2014-15.

VIII.2 Issues with implementation of MKSP Absence of dedicated staff for monitoring MKSP activities in the States which affects the

proper implementation of project Poor due diligence carried out by SRLMs on the MKSP projects received-

Absence of desk appraisal/field appraisal reports on the received projects by the States, forwarded to N.M.M.U.-SRLM Tamil Nadu, SRLM Jharkhand, SRLM MP etc.

Poor quality of MKSP projects received by N.M.M.U.- Projects do not adhere to the submission templates, budget templates etc.-SRLM-TN, SRLM-MP

Holding/Delay of transfer of funds/central share to the PIA by the SRLM. eg. SRLM Karnataka,, SRLM-Maharashtra, SRLM Assam, etc.

Absence of bi-monthly review of PIA by the State mission Mandatory documents like DPR, Baseline report and quarterly reports have not been

submitted by SRLM-Bihar, in spite of several reminders during many previous quarterly review meetings.

Poor attendance of the SRLM teams to the quarterly review of PIAs. In the previous MKSP quarterly review, SPMs from Odisha, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, MP and AP only attended the review. SRLM Bihar has not participated in the last review meeting in July 2014.

Action Points (for SRLMs): The States need to put in place district and Block level teams for livelihoods verticals Undertake bi monthly review meeting and field visits with the MKSP partners implementing

projects in the respective States- It is expected that States like- Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat

initiate the process at the earliest. To include MKSP areas under intensive strategy and initiate social mobilization process in an

intensive manner. Except AP, Bihar and Kerala, all other States (11 States) covered under MKSP may

consider the MKSP areas under intensive blocks

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Explore possibilities to take services from NSO-PRADAN for capacity building of livelihood team and also identify best practices in agro ecological farming specially the central Indian States like MP, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Collaborate with NSO-digital GREEN to develop audio-visual training and capacity building products in the Livelihoods domain, which will make the process more efficient on account of reduced communication loss. The priority States envisaged for this collaboration are West Bengal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Gujarat and Karnataka

To identify Livelihoods CRPs and other best practitioners from among the MKSP partners in the State and utilize their services for scaling up of the local best practices in other intensive blocks of the State

Organize exposure visits for the SHG members to the best practice sites of the agro ecological farming practice covered by the MKSP partners to support scaling up of best practices to other areas.

VIII.3Poorest of Poor strategy roll out through CMSA to support agriculture based livelihoods

SERP is currently supporting roll out of Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture practices with a specific focus of Poorest of the Poor (POP) farmers in two resource blocks covering 20 villages each in the States of Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, MP and Jammu & Kashmir where sufficient levels of social mobilization has been completed. Four rounds of CRP drive have been completed till December 2014, in the aforementioned states with the support of CMSA CRPs, drawn from the pool of community resource on CMSA implementation developed in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In the Rabi season, focus has been given towards deepening of interventions in the villages, by targeting to cover one member per SHG under the protocols of CMSA. Meanwhile, the state missions have focussed on identification of best practitioners who will be groomed continuously to scale up the process in other intensive blocks of the state

Action Points (for the State Missions implementing Ultra-poor strategy in their state): It is planned to expand the Ultra-poor strategy to six new states- Karnataka, Haryana,

Assam, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh The State missions are expected to provide support for the implementation of of Ultra-

poor strategy in their states In this context, placement of one Young Professional per resource block identified for Ultra-poor strategy roll out needs to be undertaken by the respective state missions

N.M.M.U. team will facilitate smooth functioning of Partnership/MoU between SRLM and SERP

Troubleshoot any issues/bottlenecks arising in the implementation of PoP strategy in resource blocks

N.M.M.U. will evaluate the quality of services and provide requisite technical assistance to both SERP and SRLM for achieving optimum level of outcomes

N.M.M.U. will assist SRLM and SERP in identifying District and State anchors to be deployed for CMSA roll out in the resource blocks and guide them from time to time.

VI. Social inclusion and Social Development

9.1 Agenda Points:

1. NRLM is undertaking 3 special projects on pilot mode. 17

o Anti-Human Trafficking pilot project to bring victims of trafficking into NRLM fold - Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala;

o Persons Engaged in Unhygienic Occupations (eg. manual scavenging) for rehabilitating them into other livelihood options – Maharashtra;

o People with Disabilities – bringing them into the fold of NRLM and creating community cadres for supporting other states on the same subject in future - Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra.

The report on implementation status is attached in the Annexure – VII

Since the projects were sanctioned in November 2013, the states which have taken up pilot projects but did not start to implement yet would not be pursued and the same may be intimated to Ministry at the earliest.2. Due to partition of Andhra Pradesh State, the area of intervention of PwD pilot has been

changed (18 blocks in Andhra Pradesh and 12 blocks in Telangana). Both the states were asked to submit a separate proposal for each state (Andhra and Telangana) with specific activities, timeline, budget and coverage for approval to NMMU. SERP-Andhra Pradesh submitted proposal with extending their mandals from 18 to 30, accordingly NMMU asked them to add this pilot project in their revised AAP and the same is awaited. Govt. of Telangana has not yet submitted any proposal.

3. NRLM has undertaken PRI-CBO convergence pilot projects that link mainly the Gram Sabha with SHGs, availing the MGNREGS entitlement to SHG women and participation of SHG women in planning process of village development by PRIs with the support of Kudumbashree NRO. As of now SRLMs of Aasam, Jharkhand, Odisha Maharashtra and Karnataka are implementing the pilot.The report on implementation status is attached in the Annexure - VIII

4. As part of strategizing the social inclusion and social development agenda of NRLM in resource and intensive blocks, a two day workshop on Social Inclusion and Social Development was conducted on 30th and 31st October, 2014 with 13 NRLP States. In this workshop, it was decided to initiate the interventions of Gender and Social Action Committees, Health and Nutrition and Persons with Disability in the resource blocks of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh with the support of external Community Resource Persons (CRPs) from National Resource Organization (NRO), SERP-Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. NMMU has requested these SRLMs and NROs to conduct a recce visit followed by a planning workshop for strategizing the implementation in resource blocks.

5. Discussion on a pilot nutrition intervention programme - “Swabhiman” supported by UNICEF for enhancing the nutrition of rural women by integrating nutrition, livelihood, health, water and sanitation has undertaken with the SRLMs of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha. The project proposals have been developed in a two day consultation with SRLMs and UNICEF team.

6. As part of Swacch Bharat Mission, one year action plan for NRLM has been developed and disseminated to all SRLMs. States have been asked to prepare 5 year action plan for implementing Swachh Bharat Mission’s activities under NRLM.

7. Aging and the concerns of elderly is one of the concerns of NRLM. As part of inclusion measures to bring poor elders into exclusive elderly SHGs, a two day writeshop for drafting the project proposal on SHGs of Elderly from 11th to 12th December, 2014 was

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organized with the technical help of HelpAge India in which draft proposals has been developed for five SRLMs of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Bihar and Tamil Nadu. Among these Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have submitted their final proposal for consideration.

8. As part of incorporating gender agenda into NRLM a two day writeshop has conducted by NRLM in which a draft strategy-cum-action plan on Gender and Social Action Committees interventions in Resource blocks of Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh has been developed. The SRLMs were asked to submit the detailed proposal and awaiting the same. It was proposed to sign a MoU between SRLMs of Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh with NRO-SERP for partnership in Gender and Social Action Committee interventions in Resource Blocks.

9. Similarly a writeshop cum planning meeting would be organized for strategizing intervention of Health & Nutrition and People with Disabilities in resource blocks after necessary recce visits with Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand SRLMs and NRO in the month of January.

10. There are two pilot projects being implemented in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh with the support of UN Women for developing gender aspect into the livelihood initiatives. A mid-term review had taken place at Delhi on 10th December and it was decided to incorporate best practices of gender intervention programmes of SERP and Kudumbashree in the supported pilots.

Action Points:1. SRLMs of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand need to finalize the interventions of

gender & social action committees in 2 resource blocks each with SERP NRO.2. SRLMs of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand need to finalize the interventions of health and

nutrition and people with disabilities in 2 resource blocks each with SERP-NROs.3. SRLMs of Odhisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand need to finalize the interventions of

‘swabhiman’ project in 2 resource blocks each with UNICEF.4. SRLMs of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Bihar to finalize the

proposal on ‘SHGs of Elderly’ and incorporate the same into the 2015-16 AAP.5. All SRLMs needs to submit their 5 year action plan on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by

incorporating the interventions within the strategy of NRLM.6. SRLM of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Odisha need to speed up the

implementation of all ongoing social inclusion pilots and report to ministry regularly.

VII. Monitoring, Evaluation and MIS:

1. Feedback on Previous Meeting

S.No. Issue Action Taken by States

(Names)Action Pending with States

(Name)1. All State Mission are

required to ensure the following:

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S.No. Issue Action Taken by States

(Names)Action Pending with States

(Name) Entry of online MPR

data by all blocks as per protocol by 10th of each month;

All intensive blocks are entering MPR data online

However, except for blocks in Jharkhand and Gujarat, the data entry is not being done on-time by most of the blocks in other states.

All states need to ensure that the MPR data entry is completed by all intensive blocks by 10th of every month.

All states need to institute quality checks to ensure consistency, correctness and completeness in MPR data.

Use/ facilitate use of ‘R’ series reports (based on MPR data on 17 key progress indicators, which can be drilled down to block level) and use them for decision making, supervision and review.

Some SMMUs have been using the ‘R’ series reports as part of their reviews.

All SRLMs need to institute regular internal review mechanisms at SMMU, DMMU and BMMU levels.

Only regular internal use of data/reports will improve the data quality.

Use/ facilitate use of SHG profile data as well as ‘S’ series reports (which can be drilled down to SHG level) for decision making, supervision and review.

SRLMs have not uploaded profiles of all SHGs in the states.

Based on feedback from states, software application (SHG report card) for generating ‘S’ series reports is being fine tuned.

All SRLMs are required to upload all SHG profiles by March 2015

All SRLMs are required to establish necessary computer infrastructure at block level

All SRLMs are required to institute appropriate mechanisms for collection of SHG transactions data – institution of books, bookkeepers, and regular bookkeeping,

Identify, train and use the services of CRPs/ Point Persons to collect transactions data from SHGs

Establish protocols for compilation and reporting of transactions data

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S.No. Issue Action Taken by States

(Names)Action Pending with States

(Name)2. The performance of

SRLM on key indicators will henceforth be reviewed on the basis of “R” and “S” series reports (by NMMU)

NMMU has started using ‘R’ series reports (based on MPR data) for reviewing SRLMs

NMMU to finalize ‘S’ series application by February, 2015

3. In respect of baseline studies, the SRLMs are required to ensure that: the contracted

agencies adhere to the TOR of the study including:

- sample size and distribution in the ‘Mission’ and ‘control’ areas;

- deployment of dedicated full-time leader and two full-time team members for the entire duration of the contract period, besides other staff;

- use of CRPs as part of enumerators/ investigators;

- ensure that the team members deployed in a given state are not concurrently deployed elsewhere; and

- closely monitor conduct of Baseline through a dedicated team at all stages.

NMMU has issued advisories to the states to ensure adherence to the points stated.

Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are adhering to the provisions of the advisory

Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat and West Bengal with baseline survey agencies on board are required to adhere to the provisions stated.

Other SRLMs are also required to adhere to the advisory as and when they commence base line survey

4. All SRLMs (except Jharkhand, MP and Maharashtra) are required to complete procurement of baseline survey

As of December 2014, in addition to Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, the States of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka,

Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh are required to complete procurement of baseline survey agencies without further delay

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S.No. Issue Action Taken by States

(Names)Action Pending with States

(Name)agencies by end of Oct ’14.

Gujarat and West Bengal have got the baseline agencies on board.

5. All SRLMs (except Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Gujarat), are required to procure services of MIS Agency by end of Oct 14

All SRLMs are using basic NRLM MIS modules designed by NIC

9 out of 13 NRLP states have not yet procured services of MIS design and development agency

As design and development of transaction based MIS application takes 18 to 24 months, states have been advised to adopt MIS developed and being used in Jammu & Kashmir or Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh in a partnership mode.

All SRLMs (other than Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat) are advised to adopt the MIS developed and being implemented in Jammu & Kashmir or Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh . Alternatively the State may design and develop their own systems as early as possible.

6. All SRLMs are requested to update their staff details on NRLM MIS on a dynamic basis.Further all SRLMs are required to ensure that the number of SHG reported in MPR and the number of SHG profiles entered in NRLM portal match with each other.

All SRLMs are uploading their HR details on the NRLM portal. However, the attrition and replacement details are not being regularly updated by all.

All SRLMs are required to update HR information on a dynamic basis to reflect attrition, replacement and new recruitment.

7. West Bengal SRLM has not uploaded profiles of SHGs in the NRLM portal.

No progress West Bengal is required to upload profiles of 41,696 SHG profiles on the portal with further delay.

2. Core issues causing problems in implementation of the schemes including financial issues, State specificIn respect of implementation of SRLM-MIS, the following issues are observed:

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Prolonged delays in procurement of MIS design and development agency at the state level due to: (i) shortage of key procurement and MIS professionals at SMMUs; (ii) preparation of unviable and expensive proposals by SRLMs; (iii) multistage approval process; (iv) delays in design and development of software application; and (v) delays in establishing computer infrastructure and other complementary systems at the block and sub-block levels.

3. Guidelines/Policy MattersIn order to address the issues in implementation of MIS and commissioning of baseline and other studies, the NMMU has issued the following guidelines/advisories during the last three months:

S.No. Advisory Purpose

1. Advisory for early institution of MIS by all SRLMs (dated 10.11.2014)

To facilitate adoption of transaction based MIS designed, developed and being implemented by Jammu & Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand by other SRLMs

2. Advisory to SRLMs on conduct of Baseline Survey (dated 11.11.2014)

To provide detailed guidelines to the SRLMs on (i) key outcome indicators to be assessed; (ii) suggested methodology; (iii) sample size and distribution; (iv) tools to be used; (v) team size and composition; (vi) field team; (vii) use of community investigators; (ix) timelines; and (x) procurement and contract management issues.

3. Advisory to SRLMs on baseline survey teams (dated 8.09.2014)

To ensure that external agencies whose services are contracted by SRLMs do not deploy the same team members concurrently in other states/studies

4. MIS- State Specific Issues(a) All State Missions are currently using NRLM MIS V1.0 covering the following

modules: Module-1: SHG Profile Database; Module-2: Monthly Progress Report Module; Module-3: HR Module; Module-4: SHG Report Card Module (under testing); Reports: (SHG Profile based reports ‘G’-series (10), MPR based reports ‘R-series’

(19) and SHG report card based ‘S’-series (6); Exception Reports (6); and Core staff reports (4))

The following issues are observed in respect of NRLM-MIS Version 1.0 used by SRLMs: Occasional delays in reporting data from the BMMUs; Occasional lack of consistency in data reported; Lack of adequate quality assurance systems at the block and sub-block levels; Inadequate computer infrastructure and complementary systems at block level; Inadequate use of information at BMMU, DMMU and SMMU for decision making

and supervision; and Inadequate systems for data collection, compilation and reporting at the sub-block

level.(b) Status of state specific MISs in place:

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Category-A States (Transaction Based MIS in Place): The State Missions of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir have transaction based systems. Other states have been advised to examine, pilot test and adopt any one of the systems after necessary customization.

Category-B States (Transaction Based MIS in the Development Stage): MIS agencies on board in Bihar, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Long time delays observed in the rollout of MIS. The states are required to facilitate early completion and rollout of MIS.

Category-C States (States without Transaction Based MISs): All other states are advised to adopt system being implemented in Jammu & Kashmir or Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh, after necessary customization.

5. Best Practice/ Innovations/ Case StudiesThe following best practices have been observed in M&E and MIS:

Development and use of transaction based CBO-centred MIS in Jammu & Kashmir in shortest possible time with moderate cost. A unique feature of MIS is that every bank branch providing loans to SHGs is given access to MIS;

In-house development of MIS by Chhattisgarh SRLM in partnership with NIC; Use of community enumerators for conducting baseline survey in Chhattisgarh; and Introduction of community based monitoring in two districts of Jharkhand.

VIII. Financial Management:

1. Closure report of SGSY: In the PRC meeting held on 5th June, 2014 SRLMs were requested to submit a final/interim closure report indicating the position of SGSY Audit reports and Transfer of the un-utilized funds under SGSY to the SRLM accounts, by 31st July, 2014. Current status is as under :

S. No. State

Amount collected Rs. In Lakhs Statu of report

1 Tamil Nadu 593.65 Final closure report2 Chhattisgarh 3866.61 Final closure report3 Nagaland 49.95 Final closure report4 Mizoram 1.02 Final closure report5 Haryana 1722 Final closure report

6 Rajasthan 2013.53 Interim closure report7 Madhya Pradesh 4421.00 Interim closure report8 Karnataka 620.00 Interim closure report9 Gujarat 1331.36 Interim closure report

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10 Meghalaya 3.18 Interim closure report11 Jharkhand 5820.56 Interim closure report12 Odisha 2316.78 Interim closure report

All SRLMs except Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tamil Nadu are requested to submit SGSY closure report by end of February, 2015 positively.

2. Audit of Accounts for the year 2013-14:All SRLMs have Appointment of Statutory Audit and status of submission of Audit report is as under:-

Statement showing Audit Status of NRLP States for the year 2013-14Status StateReport Submitted

Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh(NRLP part) and West Bengal

Audit Completed Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu, Uttar PradeshProgress Rajasthan, Audit is in progress

Statement showing Audit Status of NRLM States for the year 2013-14Status StateReport Submitted Haryana and Meghalaya.Audit Completed Andhra Pradesh and Punjab

Rest of the SRLMs need to expedite completion of the Audit for the year 2013-14 and submit the Audit Report.

3. Roll out of Tally based Accounting System (FMS)

NMMU is coordinating with Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd., to provide solution for some practical problems being faced in preparing IUFRs. All SRLMs have procured and installed Tally software. Accounts are being maintained in Tally-FMS for the financial year 2014-15 and IUFRs for individual accounting centers are being generated. SRLMs were facing problems in generating consolidated IUFR. NMMU has coordinated with Tally Solutions to resolve the issue and FMS 2.53 version has been released.

o Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (NRLP part) , Chhattisgarh and Karnataka(NRLP part) have submitted System generated IUFRs.

o Rest of the NRLP States need to expedite. o FMS implementation in the NRLM – States will be taken-up shortly.

4. Liquidation of SGSY unspent balances:

In the last Performance Review Committee (PRC) meeting held on 5th June 2014, it was agreed that the excess unspent balances, including SGSY balances, in the SRLM accounts that cannot be utilized during the course of the year may be surrendered to the Ministry.

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With concurrence of Ministry’s Integrated Finance Division surrender of funds is sought based on the norm that 75% of the available balance as on 30th June (i.e, the Central share of the balance) does not exceed the current year’s Central allocation. In case 75% of the available balance exceeds the current year’s Central allocation, the balance amount should be surrendered to the Ministry.

Punjab and Uttar Pradesh has surrendered a sum of Rs. 450.00 lakhs and Rs.63251.94 lakhs respectively. Rest of the SRLMs should expiate action for refunding the excess balance.

5. Strengthening of Internal Control System at District and sub-district level:

At the bi-monthly Finance review meeting held on 15th and 16th Septembers, 2014 SRLMs were guided to hold regular review meetings with District Staff on fixed/common set of agenda items and start grading the performance of Districts on Financial Management issues. Common set of parameters and format for grading were shared with the SRLMs.

Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra are holding regular review meeting with District staff to monitor their activities and guiding them for improvement and stablishing of the Financial Management System.

All the SRLMs are requested to establish system of regular review of Districts on Financial Management issues and circulate the minutes along with Action points to DMMUs under intimation to NMMU.

A similar system of reviewing Financial Management issues at sub-district level by Districts may also be established

IX. Agenda Note on Procurement

1. Feedback on Previous Meeting MinutesS.No

.Issue Action Taken by States Action Pending

with the States

1. Out of 85 services identified for procurement in 12 NRLP states (other than Bihar) (covering services of Statutory Audit, Internal Audit, FMTSA, Baseline Survey agency, Process

The status of procurement as on 31st Dec 2014 is as follows:

States need to complete procurement of all services by March 2015. Status of procurement is furnished in Annexures-XII& XIII

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S.No

.Issue Action Taken by States Action Pending

with the States

Monitoring Agency, MIS Design and development agency, HR agency and supplier of office equipment) the status as on 18th September 2014 is as follows: Completed - 36; Final stage -15; RFP stage -10; TOR/EOI stage-17; and Yet be started -7.

Completed–67**; Final stage-8; RFP stage-8; and TOR/EOI stage-21.

2. Odisha and Karnataka to ensure that procurement of statutory auditor is completed before the end of Sep 14

Both states have completed procurement of services of Statutory Auditors.

Nil

3. West Bengal and Odisha are required to make special efforts to speed up procurement of essential services

West Bengal has completed procurement of 5 essential services (viz., Statutory Auditors, Baseline Survey Agency, FMTSA, HR agency and agency for supply of office equipment).

Odisha has completed procurement of three services (viz., Statutory Auditor, FMTSA and supplier for office equipment).

West Bengal and Odisha are required to complete procurement of other services by end of March 2015.

4. All NRLP states are required to complete procurement of essential services by Oct/ Nov 2014

State Procurement Completed

To be Completed

Bihar 8 0Chhattisgarh 7 1Gujarat 7 1Jharkhand 7 1Assam 6 2MP 6 2Maharashtra 6 2Rajasthan 6 2

All states are required to complete procurement of remaining services by March 2015.

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S.No

.Issue Action Taken by States Action Pending

with the States

West Bengal 5 3Odisha 3 5Tamil Nadu 3 5Karnataka 2 6Uttar Pradesh 1 7

Total 67 37Note: ** Including 8 services procured by Bihar

2. Core issues causing problems in implementation of the schemes including financial issues, State specific

S.No State Issues

1. Tamil Nadu Prolonged delays in procurement of goods and services (Baseline survey, Process monitoring, HR agency)

Procurement not initiated in respect of MIS agency2. Karnataka No procurement professional at SMMU

Procurement of MIS agency not initiated3. Odisha Prolonged delays in procurement at each stage (Baseline Survey, HR

agency, MIS) Process monitoring not initiated

4. Uttar Pradesh No procurement professional at SMMU Procurement of MIS agency and internal auditors not initiated

3. Guidelines/Policy Matters

Advisory issued for states to adopt MIS of Jammu & Kashmir/Jharkhand/Chhattisgarh

X NRLP States -Mid Term Review Role of SRLMs

1. The Mid-Term Review of NRLP is scheduled to be completed by March 25, 2015. The NRLM and the World Bank will jointly undertake the Mid-Term Review. The purpose of the Mid-Term Review is to take stock of the:

(i) implementation progress and key achievements of NRLP in each state; (ii) key processes instituted with respect to results indicators;

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(iii) key constraints and issues faced in respect of progress, scaling-up and quality of outcomes;

(iv) feasibility of achieving resource/ intensive block results indicators in the remaining period of NRLP; and

(v) identify any strategic changes, corrective measures and further restructuring that may be necessary for accelerated implementation and scaling-up, improved outcomes and utilization of NRLP funds.

2. All NRLP states are required to participate in the mid-term review and provide necessary information and conduct the MTR related sample studies. The NRLP states are required to undertake the following activities:

(a) Nominate a nodal person to coordinate the MTR related studies and provide necessary information;

(b) Participate in the preparatory workshop scheduled for 6th and 7th January at NIRD, Hyderabad;

(c) Identify sample districts, blocks, clusters and villages following the guidelines;(d) Undertake process efficiency assessment study using the suggested tools and methods

and by organizing necessary workshops/focus groups;(e) Identify and train internal teams for conducting sample studies;(f) Conduct sample studies using SHG schedules, VO schedules and Cluster schedule;(g) Digitized sample data in the suggested format after necessary cleaning;(h) Provide necessary state level information in the suggested template;(i) Facilitate visit of joint assessment teams of MORD and the World Bank; and(j) Furnish any other information that might be required for MTR.

A tentative schedule of the MTR related activities and the relative roles of the NMMU and the states are presented in Annexure-XI.

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Aajeevika [National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM]

Annexures-Performance Review Committee MeetingAnnexure I

Human Resource Status (Thematic Area)Progress up to 31st December, 2014

S. No.

State Positions Approved

Positions Filled in

Positions Filled (In %)

1 Assam 476 357 75%2 Bihar 7714 5041 65%3 Chhattisgarh 145 120 83%4 Gujarat 476 308 65%5 Jharkhand 596 487 82%6 Karnataka 187 156 83%7 Madhya Pradesh 894 855 96%8 Maharashtra 642 448 70%9 Odisha 1923 389 20%

10 Rajasthan 181 116 64%11 Tamil Nadu 4550 2214 49%12 Uttar Pradesh 273 185 68%13 West Bengal 208 80 38%

Total NRLP States 18374 10765 59%

14 Arunachal Pradesh 66 5 8%15 Haryana 137 114 83%16 Himachal Pradesh 50 36 72%17 Jammu & Kashmir 2518 Meghalaya 51 33 65%19 Mizoram 34 27 79%20 Nagaland 319 166 52%21 Punjab 63 54 86%22 Tripura 142 44 31%23 Uttarakhand 50 36 72%

Total 19286 11305 59%

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Annexure- IIResource Block Progress – (Up to November, 2014)

State wise progress in Resource block implementationS. No

Indicator Progress upto June 2014

Chhatisgarh

Maharashtra

Jharkhand

MP Rajasthan

Haryana

J&K Nagaland

Mizoram

Total

1 No. of Districts

41 6 4 4 6 10 7 9 9 2 57

2 Number of Resource Blocks

49 6 8 7 6 10 7 10 9 4 67

3 No. of CRP rounds completed

NA 11 9 8 7 7 6 10 3 2 NA

4 Number of villages to be covered

2677 681 879 482 610 759 279 607 156 70 4523

5 % of villages covered

45 86 67 75 63 41 75 94 77 18 66

6 No. of New SHGs formed

15,170

3853

4088 2738

3028

4818 1132 4691 527 189 25064

7 No. of old/dormant/ defunct groups revived

3,326

904 1516 1441

902 236 64 1 26 146 5236

8 Total no. of SHGs supported by SRLM

18,496

4757

5596 4179

3930

5054 1196 4478 425 314 29929

9 Total BPL Households to be covered

457,964

86031

110,445

89842

76186

139,064

27960

88814

18687

24550

572765

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Total HHs covered in SHGs

211,325

51619

62221

43216

42936

54583

13701

47572

10620

5045

331513

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% of 2 months old (and above) SHGs have a bank account

87 86 76 76 77 63 99 99 99 99 86

1 No. of SHGs 12,6 325 4331 294 234 3671 938 3670 659 575 223

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2 eligible for receiving RF (3-6months)

21 4 3 0 81

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No. of SHGs received RF

9,729

2704

2869 2692

1948

3120 786 3630 340 459 18548

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% of eligible SHGs received RF

77 83 66 91 83 85 84 99 52 80 80

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Amount of RF disbursed (Rs.in Lakhs)

3,167

406 423 404 300 468 206.8

542.16

51 63.6

2865

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No. of SHGs eligible for receiving CIF through MCP/MIP

9,933

2795

3464 2751

2148

3010 625 2403 17196

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% of 6 month old (and above) SHGs that have prepared Micro Investment Plan

31 41 21 75 70 87 46 98 63

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No. of SHGs received CIF

3,612

1033

724 2006

677 2197 413 2349 9399

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Amount of CIF disbursed (Rs.in lakhs)

1,410

599 412 1003

339 2417 206.5

919.6

5896.1

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% of 6 months old (and above) SHGs credit linked to Banks

53 51 29 30 16 32 18 51 1 29

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Amount of credit leveraged from Banks (Rs.in lakhs)

1,276

1165

602 433 121 417 135.95

486.5

8 3368.4

5

22

No of community professionals identified for supporting

5,494

986 1371 1004

971 1394 360 1830 36 115 8067

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SHGs (excluding Bookkeepers)

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No. of community professionals trained for working in the villages (excluding Book-keepers)

1,397

498 419 490 308 400 102 1480 36 16 3749

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No. of Villages where 6 months of CRP work is completed

1,398

570 360 142 250 84 106 427 10 27 1976

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No. of Sr. CRP rounds completed

NA 7 2 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 NA

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No. of Village Organizations formed

542 175 72 142 0 84 97 202 0 27 799

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No. of Village Organizations received training by Sr. CRP teams

411 175 72 142 0 84 0 0 0 0 473

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No. of Village Organizations received startup cost

335 127 72 140 0 84 58 380 0 0 861

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Annexure_IIIDisbursal of Interest Subvention during the year FY 2014-15

Amount in Rs. lakhsCategory - I districts Category - II districts

Sl. No State Name No. of Accounts I.S Amount No. of

AccountsI.S.

Amount1 ANDHRA PRADESH 1805145 12677.192 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 622 2.353 ASSAM 2177 4.73 662 7.944 BIHAR 60516 67.79 274 2.75 CHHATISGARH 9553 21.59 515 4.926 GOA 3911 20.717 GUJARAT 8661 14.948 HARYANA 812 2.479 HIMACHAL PRADESH 3838 17.43

10 JAMMU AND KASHMIR 8320 15.8411 JHARKHAND 12824 63.9612 KARNATAKA 420969 1299.83 85794 129813 KERALA 33356 124.18 33070 723.3514 MADHYA PRADESH 9582 15.2715 MAHARASHTRA 28989 110.34 869 9.7916 MIZORAM 42 0.2617 NAGALAND 133 0.2818 ODISHA 143412 399.3619 PUNJAB 295 1.0220 RAJASTHAN 6003 27.8821 SIKKIM 219 0.6322 TAMIL NADU 150177 942.09 17700 94023 TRIPURA 584 2.1824 UTTAR PRADESH 4060 13.0625 UTTARAKHAND 603 1.1026 WEST BENGAL 47079 91.65 54 0.32

Total 2761882 15938.12 138664 2984.32* Note: For Category-I districts Rs 132.53 Cr is under process for release by MoRD. Remaining claims being consolidated by Canara Bank

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Annexure – IVAchievement of SHG Credit Linkage during the year FY 2014-15

S.No States & UTs

Target AchievementAchievement (% of target for FY

2014-15)

Total Loan Amount (Rs Cr)

Total SHGsTotal Loan

Amount(Rs Cr)

1 ANDHRA PRADESH 9214.00 70,572 2203.11 23.91%2 TELANGANA 5373.00 61,810 1706.17 31.75%3 KARNATAKA 2925.00 87,437 1607.80 54.97%4 TAMIL NADU 6000.00 48,078 1207.75 20.13%5 KERALA 1000.00 24,611 584.86 58.49%6 MAHARASHTRA 300.00 16,897 189.69 63.23%7 WEST BENGAL 1018.80 15,459 172.84 16.96%8 BIHAR 941.00 19,156 124.56 13.24%9 ORISSA 500.00 11,306 111.81 22.36%

10 CHATTISGARH 80.00 6,633 65.24 81.55%11 GUJARAT 132.00 5,436 48.69 36.89%12 RAJASTHAN 77.50 5,429 45.89 59.21%13 MADHYA PRADESH 500.00 2,639 30.09 6.02%14 ASSAM 350.00 3,113 20.59 5.88%15 JHARKHAND 200.00 1,474 13.56 6.78%16 UTTAR PRADESH 10.00 1,037 13.22 132.18%17 HIMACHAL PRADESH 48.00 383 7.46 15.55%18 NAGALAND 12.50 292 4.93 39.41%19 GOA NA 161 3.94 NA20 HARYANA 45.00 327 3.66 8.14%21 PUNJAB 20.00 143 2.33 11.65%22 UTTARAKHAND 45.00 210 2.06 4.58%23 JAMMU & KASHMIR 20.00 110 0.82 4.09%24 TRIPURA 7.50 94 0.52 6.97%25 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 2.50 11 0.21 8.54%26 MANIPUR 5.00 21 0.21 4.14%27 MEGHALAYA 12.50 23 0.20 1.60%28 SIKKIM 5.00 25 0.10 2.06%29 MIZORAM 7.50 4 0.09 1.23%

Total 28851.80 382891 8172.41 28.33%Source: SHG Bank Linkage Portal; Manual information on Cooperative Banks as shared by SRLMs

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Annexure – VSHG Bank Linkage Target for 2014-15

SL State No. of SHGs to be Linked

Amount of Credit(Rs Cr)

1 Andhra Pradesh 281438 92142 Tamil Nadu 300000 60003 Telangana 184887 53734 Karnataka 225000 29255 West Bengal 143435 1018.86 Kerala 80000 10007 Bihar 165865 9418 Madhya Pradesh 30000 5009 Orissa 50000 50010 Assam 59000 35011 Maharashtra 40900 30012 Jharkhand 35000 20013 Gujarat 17800 13214 Chhattisgarh 15000 8015 Rajasthan 14500 77.516 Himachal Pradesh 8000 4817 Haryana 7500 4518 Uttrakhand 2000 1019 Punjab 4000 2020 J&K 4000 2021 Nagaland 2500 12.522 Meghalaya 2500 12.523 Uttar Pradesh 2000 1024 Tripura 1500 7.525 Mizoram 1500 7.526 Manipur 1000 527 Sikkim 1000 528 Arunachal Pradesh 500 2.5

Total 1685825 28817.14

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Annexure – VIList of Completed RSETIs

Sl State District Name of the Bank Total Amount Released (lakh)

GRADING 2013

1 2 3 4 5 6

1 A P Ananthapur RUDSETI * AA

2 Ranga Reddy SBH 100.00 AA

3 Prakasam RUDSETI 100.00 AA

4 Medak SBI 100.00 A

5 Nizamabad SBH 100.00 AA

6 Nalgonda SBH 100.00 AA

7 Bihar Begusarai UCO 100.00 A

8 Chattisgarh Bilaspur SBI 100.00 AA

9 Karnataka Bagalkot ING Vysya 99.02 AA

10

Bidar DCC 93.45 AA

11

Bijapur RUDSETI 100.00 AA

12

Belgam Syndicate Bank 60.00 AA

13

Chikmangulur Corporation Bank 100.00 AA

14

Chitradurga RUDSETI 100.00 AA

15

Davangare Canara Bank 94.57 AA

16

Dharward RUDSETI 90.98 AA

17

D.Kannada/Ujjaire RUDSETI 100.00 AA

18

Gadag SBI 80.00 BB

19

Gulberga SBI 100.00 AA

20

Haveri Vijaya Bank 100.00 AA

21

Kolar Canara Bank 100.00 AA

22

Mandya Vijaya Bank 100.00 AA

23

Mysore RUDSETI 99.58 AA

24

Udipi RUDSETI 90.93 AA

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U.Kannada/Kumpta Syndicate Bank 100.00 AA

26

Chikbalapur Canara Bank 100.00 AA

27

Shimoga Canara Bank 100.00 AA

28

Banglore Rural RUDSETI * AA

29

Tumkur SBM 100.00 AA

30

Kodagu Corp. Bank 100.00 N.G.

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Gujarat Banaskantha/Palanpur

Dena Bank 100.00 BA

32

Patan Dena Bank 100.00 AA

33

Jamnagar SBI * AA

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Kerala Kannur RUDSETI 100.00 AA

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Maharashtra Solapur BOI 100.00 BB

36

Latur SBI 100.00 AA

37

MP Ujjain Bank of India 100.00 BA

38

Housangabad CBI 100.00 CB

39

Narsingpur CBI 100.00 A

40

Shahdol CBI * C

41

Dewas BOI 100.00 BA

42

Odisha Khorda RUDSETI 100.00 AA

43

Kendrapara SBI 100.00 A

44

Punjab Ferojpur OBC 100.00 AA

45

Moga PSB 100.00 AA

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Faridkot PSB 100.00 AB

4 Rajstahan Ajmer BOB 100.00 BA

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748

Banswara BOB 100.00 CA

49

Pratapgarh BoB 100.00 CB

50

Sirohi SBBJ * AB

51

Rajasmand SBBJ 100.00 BA

52

Udaipur ICICI 100.00 AA

53

Jaipur RUDSETI 100.00 AA

54

Bhilwara RUDSETI * A

55

Kota CBI * AA

56

Tamilnadu Shivgangai Canara Bank N.G.

57

Uttarakhand Udham singh Nagar BoB B

58

U P Agra RUDSETI AB

59

Ghaziabad RUDSETI AA

Note: N.G.: Not Graded for the year

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Annexure – VIIStatus of SI-SD Pilots

Project States Status

Anti-Huma

n Trafficking

(AHT)

SERP, Andhra Pradesh

360 Gender CRPs have been identified and trained and ready to support other SRLMs.

6000 women have been identified which includes trafficking survivors and at-risk women.

Groups of identified SHG members and adolescent girls have been trained. 30 SHG women have been trained on different skills of stitching.

Two training modules/kits has been developed signed on trafficking for awareness generation.

MSRLM, Maharashtra

Completed sensitization and capacity building of UMED staff and meeting with various stake holders

Completed need assessment, profiling of women from Shanti Sadan shelter home.

Started tailoring classes at Bhiwandi brothel area and Shanti Sadan shelter home.

Conducted sessions on health, hygiene and art therapy for the shelter home inmates.

Total 90 villages identified from Osmanabad district based on the vulnerability indicators for prevention intervention.

Formation of adolescent girls groups started. Exposure visit conducted at SERP AP to understand gender strategy.

Kudumbashre, Kerala

Consultation meetings and situational analysis for the identification of issues completed.

Workshops were conducted for Elected representatives, officials, ASHA, Anganwadi workers, Officials from different departments and Kudumbashree CBO

Convergence platform created to prevent the trafficking issues in the

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Project States Status

concerned blocks. Gender Help Desk has started and working 24 hrs to address atrocities

against women and Children and also trafficking issues. Migration Center at Chittur, Mananthavadi and Devikulam block providing

guidance to women going to other states/places for work. Center is also updating details of people coming to the selected region to stay for short term

OLM, Odisha

Selection and training of Gender CRPs and Block Level Federation (BLF). Orientation of AWWs, BLF members, Sarpanches, and CRPs from local NGO

has been done with the help of external Resource Persons. At- Risk HHs has been identified and one migration register has been

initiated which are being maintained by the gender CRP to keep track of the migrating Households.

Awareness campaigns (village meeting, street play, wall painting, leaflet distribution) on safe migration and trafficking is going on in four pilot G.Ps.

KSRLM, Karnataka

Strategy of implementation and the districts to be covered under the pilot has been changed on the direction of State Government.

Proposal has been revised and awaiting for approval.

Person engaged in Unhygienic Occupation (PEiHO)

Maharashtra Total 275 households of persons engaged in unhygienic occupations mapped from Sholapur district.

Meetings were conducted with communities. Discussed on the aspect of health, caste based stigma, alternate opportunity available through Focus Group Discussion and Rapport building meetings.

Baseline study in 105 households was undertaken to understand the dynamics within the settlements, concerns of the PEIUO. The data analysis and report compilation is in process.

A Perspective study on the Unhygienic occupations concept was undertaken at Pilgrimage sites to understand the work patterns, group dynamics,

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Project States Status

challenges of large no of PEIUO employed it has been culminated in a process document.

Partnership proposal to work with Jan is in process

Person with

Disabilities

(PwDs)

SERP, AP

Due to partition of State, the area of intervention of pilot has been changed (18 blocks in Andhra Pradesh and 12 blocks in Telangana.

Submission of separate proposal for each state (Andhra and Telangana) with specific activities, timeline, budget and coverage for approval to NMMU is under process

Maharashtra

64 Self Help Groups have been formed and trained. Revolving fund has been released to 26 SHGs Training on life skills, leadership etc. had been imparted to SHGs Detailed proposal on PwDs to be submitted to NMMU for approval with

specific activities, timeline, budget and coverage

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Annexure – VIIIPRI CBO Convergence Projects – Partner-State-wise status update as on 10 December 2014Status Parameter Assam Jharkhand Karnataka Maharashtra Odisha

Pilot area 2 blocks in 2 districts 6 blocks in 6 districts (3 by JSLPS, 3 by PRADAN)

4 blocks in 2 districts

3 blocks in 3 districts

4 blocks in 4 districts

Formation of SRG and their Orientation (all SRLMs completed)

SRG formed. Current composition not very active. Have participated in the ToT of the scoping study team

SRG formed. Core group of SRG participated in project activities and is active in the planning phase

SRG formed. Active group. Have representatives from NGOs involved in SHG work in Karnataka and Government department personnel.

SRG formed. Active participation in State Strategy formulation

SRG Formed. Current composition not very active

Scoping study- Training Study team- Conduct of Scoping and Field Level Assessment -Finalization of Scoping report

Completed; good mix of community representatives in the study team.

Completed. Study team was sourced from NYK as the Coordinator is also an SRG member. No community participation. The BPMs are planning to share the scoping study findings with the community

Completed. Scoping study has been revised into Field Level Assessment. The team consists of personnel from the pilot blocks who have been associated with organisations working with SHGs. The assessment has just begun at field level.

Completed. High level of community level involvement. Scoping team to be continued as Block-level Master trainers

Completed and there was active community involvement and of elected representatives. Participation of SIRD trainers in the scoping study team

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Status Parameter Assam Jharkhand Karnataka Maharashtra Odisha

State Strategy Formulation

Completed Completed Not started Completed Completed

Selection of Local Resource Groups

Completed Completed Started Completed Completed

Involvement of SRG for developing capacity building modules

Not done SRG Core group formed for the purpose; focussed activities not done

SRG participated in validation of Field Level Assessment module and translation of the training modules

SRG members assigned tasks; follow up by MSRLM being done.

Not done

Capacity building of LRG & CBO

Phase 1 done Phase 1 done Not started Phase 1 done Phase 1 done

Capacity building of PRI – 1

Completed. Phase 2 being planned

Phase 1 done Not started Completed. Phase 2 being planned

Phase 1 completed

Gram Sabha oriented mobilization around specific schemes

Mobilisation done for Gram Sabha held on 2 October and 1

November

Gram Sabhas for IPPE has been completed

Not started Mobilisation done for Gram Sabha held on 15 August. Increased participation of SHG women.

Palli sabhas and Gram Sabhas conducted for IPPE during November for submitting NREGS plans

Intensive participatory planning exercise (IPPE) for NREGS

To take place in November-December

Completed in two blocks. To be taken up in the third block in December

Not started Not started Completed in three blocks

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Status Parameter Assam Jharkhand Karnataka Maharashtra Odisha

Participatory Assessment of Entitlements (Baseline)

To start in December To be started in January

Not started Conduct underway To start in January

Annexure-IXProcurement Status of Procurement of Essential Services: NRLP States As on 31.12.2014

Sl.No.

Thematic Area

Procurement StatusTOR/EOI stage RFP Stage Final Stage Completed

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)1. Baseline

Survey Odisha (1) Rajasthan(1) Uttar

Pradesh, Tamil Nadu (2)

Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka (9)

2. MIS Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu,Odisha, Karnataka, Uttar –Pradesh (8)

Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, (5)

3. FMTSA Madhya Pradesh (1) Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh (2)

Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Rajasthan, Maharashtra (10)

4. Process Monitoring

Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh (7)

Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, (2)

Gujarat, Karnataka, (2)

Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, (2)

5. Internal Audit Odisha (Sub Judice) Uttar Pradesh,(2)

West Bengal, Karnataka (2)

Tamil Nadu (1)

Bihar, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh (8)

6. Statutory Audit

All 13 NRLP states completed Statutory Auditors (13)

7. Office Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,

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Furniture Uttar Pradesh (2)

Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, (11)

8. HR Agency Odisha, Karnataka, (2) Tamil Nadu, (1) Uttar Pradesh, (1)

Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, (9)

Total 21 8 8 67

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Annexure-XProcurement

Status of Procurement of Essential Services: NRLP States

As on 31.12.2014

S.No State Completed TOR/EOI RFP Final Stage Total Key

services

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)1. Bihar 8 82. Chhattisgarh 7 1 83. Gujarat 7 1 84. Jharkhand 7 1 85. Assam 6 2 86. MP 6 2 87. Maharashtra 6 1 1 88. Rajasthan 6 1 1 89. West Bengal 5 2 1 8

10. Odisha 3 5 811. Tamil Nadu 3 2 1 2 812. Karnataka 2 2 2 2 813. Uttar Pradesh 1 3 1 3 8

Total 67 21 8 8 104

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Annexure - XITentative Time Schedule for MTR Studies

S.No. Activity Tentative Timeline/

DatesRole of

MORD-NMMU Role of NRLP States

1. Preparation of MTR study methods and tools

20-24 December, 2014

Preparation of methods and tools

2. Field testing of tools by Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

26-30 December, 2014

-- Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

3. Fine tuning of schedules 1-4 January, 2015 M&E team and IB-CB team --4. Orientation on MTR studies 6-7 January, 2015 Organize workshop to state

professionalsDepute 2/3 senior SMMU nodal persons to the workshop

5. Finalization of MTR study methods and tools

8-10 January, 2015 M&E team, NMMU Support inputs

6. Conduct of process assessment study

14-18 January, 2015 NMMU state anchors to visit states, plan and conduct process study workshops

Conduct of process assessment workshop at SMMU and sample DMMU and BMMUs

7. Training of field teams 19-20 January, 2015 Training support Constitute internal teams;Organize training for internal teams;

8. Conduct of sample study 22 January – 5 February, 2015

State anchors to support sample study

Conduct of sample study by internal teams

9. Data cleaning and digitization 06-10 February, 2015 Support State teams10. Data analysis and report

preparation11-25 February, 2015 NMMU Support inputs

11. Workshop for presentation of report

First week of March Organize workshop and finalize reports

Provide feedback

12. Joint Missions to States 10-20 March, 2015 Facilitate and participate in visits

Support visits

13. Preparation of MTR report and presentation of proposals for revision if necessary

25 March, 2015 Organize wrap-up workshopAgreement on revisions

Participation

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