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Government of Andhra Pradesh-APREGS

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PCQ Bureau
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This is a software application for the NREGA(National Rural Employment

Guarantee Act) project(See Page 124) that provides at least 100 days of

guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose

adult member can do unskilled manual work. Earlier, workers were not paid on

time or not paid at all. Also women would be paid less. Fake registration was

common. To enable better management, the AP government along with TCS developed

a software application in which all the details of a worker could be maintained.

When a worker comes to register himself, a unique ID card is provided to him.

The photo is captured from the civic supplies department ration card to prevent

identity fraud. If they need to trace the worker they can refer to his ID. This

has reduced the time required to generate the wages of workers to barely a few

minutes, from 15-20 days. The availability of funds is also indicated after

every payment is made. Data is uploaded to the state server through a data

network, dial up connection or even physical media. It is then uploaded into

Oracle RDBMS server using specially developed tools for verification, validation

and data pre-processing.

Project Specs
Business problem: Lack of work

ready for execution led to fake registrations, inaccurate reports and women

getting paid less.

IT solution: Using this application, they are able to keep track

of each worker.

Impact:

Workers are now paid correctly and on time. Fake

registration is no longer a problem.

IT Implementation partner: TCS

Project Head: Dr. M. Padma,



Jt. Commissioner (M&E)

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