The document outlines four major categories of works that can be undertaken in MGNREGS: 1) Public works relating to natural resource management like water conservation structures, watershed management, afforestation; 2) Individual assets for vulnerable sections like wells, ponds, land development; 3) Common infrastructure for self-help groups like storage facilities, work sheds; 4) Rural infrastructure like roads, drainage, sanitation, buildings. The document provides detailed lists of activities that fall under each of these four categories.
2. 4 Major Categories
A- Public Works relating to Natural
Resource Management
B- Individual Assets for Vulnerable
Sections
C- Common Infrastructure for NRLM
Compliant Self-Help Groups
D- Rural Infrastructure
3. Water Conservation &Water Harvesting Structures
Watershed management works
Micro and minor irrigation works
Improvement of traditional water bodies
Afforestation, tree plantation and horticulture
Land development
All on public/ common land
A- Public Works relating to Natural
Resource Management
4. Water Conservation &Water Harvesting
Structures
Underground dykes
Earthen dams
Stop dams
Check dams
Special focus on recharging ground
water
8. Afforestation, tree plantation and
horticulture
common and forest lands
road margins
canal bunds
tank foreshores
coastal belts
9. Vulnerable sections for IBS
ST/ SC/ BPL households
Women headed households
Households headed by differently able people
Free bonded labor/ de-notified tribes/ nomadic tribes
IAY beneficiaries
Land Reforms beneficiaries
marginal and small farmers
10. B- Individual Assets for Vulnerable
Sections
Improving productivity of land at the
household level :
dug wells
farm ponds
other water harvesting structures
Land development
12. B- Individual Assets for Vulnerable
Sections
Development of fallow land
wastelands of identified households
Unskilled wage component in
construction of houses under IAY
13. C-Common Infrastructure for NRLM
Compliant SHGs
Works for promoting agricultural productivity by :
creating durable infrastructure required for bio-
fertilizers
pucca storage facilities for agricultural produce
Common work-sheds for livelihood activities
14. D- Rural Infrastructure
Rural sanitation related works:
individual household latrines
school toilet units
Anganwadi toilets
solid and liquid waste management
15. D- Rural Infrastructure
All-weather rural road connectivity to
unconnected villages
construction of pucca internal roads or streets
side drains
Culverts
Construction of play fields
Works for improving disaster preparedness
16. D- Rural Infrastructure
Restoration of roads
Flood control and protection works
Drainage in water logged areas
Deepening and repairing of flood channels
Chaur renovation
Construction of storm water drains for coastal
protection
17. D- Rural Infrastructure
Construction of buildings for Gram Panchayats
Construction of buildings for clusters and federations of
women self-help groups
Cyclone shelters
Anganwadi Centres
Village haats
Crematoria / Burial ground at the village or block level
Construction of Food Grain Storage Structures
18. D- Rural Infrastructure
Production of building material required for
construction
Maintenance of rural public assets
Creating infrastructure for promotion of fisheries :
fish drying yards
storage facilities
seasonal water bodies on public land