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CRISP-M Tool for MGNREGA Scheme

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    10Pointer
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    Environment
  • Published
    18th Oct, 2021

Recently, the Climate Resilience Information System and Planning (CRISP-M) tool for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was launched.

Context

Recently, the Climate Resilience Information System and Planning (CRISP-M) tool for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was launched.

Key-highlights

  • The Community Resilience Information System and Planning (CRISP-M) tool aims to help to embed climate information in the Geographic Information System (GIS) in the planning and implementation of MGNREGS.
    • GIS is a computer program that analyzes and displays geographically oriented data.
  • The implementation of CRISP-M will open up new opportunities for rural communities to address the challenges of climate change.
  • The tool will be used in seven states: Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Rajasthan.

MGNREGA program:

  • It is one of the largest work guarantee programmes in the world.
  • Launched on February 2, 2006.
    • The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed on 23 August 2005.
  • Purpose: To ensure 100 days of employment each financial year for senior members of any rural family willing to do manual labor related skills.
  • Unlike previous plans to secure employment, this action aims to address the causes of chronic poverty through a rights-based framework.
    • At least one third of the beneficiaries must be women.
    • Wages must be paid in accordance with the minimum wage specified by agricultural workers in government under the Minimum Wage Act, 1948 (now derived from the Code on Wages, 2019).

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