Govt to use drones to monitor NREGA work sites

In a move aimed at ensuring both the quality and quantity of work and its delivery, the government plans to use drones to monitor NREGA (National Employment Guarantee Scheme Act) work sites. The rural development ministry has formulated a new policy under which it plans to use drones for monitoring ongoing work, inspection of completed work, assessing impact and addressing grievances.

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“By use of Drone technology, one can view the activities on the ground without human interventions. This can be utilised to monitor the completed and ongoing works of the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA,” a circular released by the ministry explaining the with the standard operating procedures said.

Under the NREGA scheme, the government provides at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

Exiting work monitoring under NREGA

A comprehensive system of monitoring and review mechanisms are in place under the scheme. This includes:

Monitoring by programme officer, district programme coordinator
Monitoring by DISHA
Geotagging assets in during various staties with GeoMGNREGA
Social audit
Ombudsperson
Internal audit
Monitoring through area officers app
Common review mission
National-level monitors
Grievance redressal mechanisms (CPGRAMS)
Janmanrega app

Custodian of NREGA drone video and imagery

The drone report will be in the form of videos (MP4 format) and images (JPEG or TIFF format) along with the respective remarks/observations. All videos and imagery collected through drones will be shared with the NREGA Soft. These are required to be saved in the database for 15 days. If state/districts want to save the information of any work site, they can download and save it to their local database within 15 days. Data generated over time will be stored for comparison of time series data. Data can be used for systematic and scientific planning and monitoring of the rural area.

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