You have been appointed as an Administrator Incharge of the District. You have been given the responsibility of monitoring MGNREGA work undertaken by various Gram Panchayats. You are also given the authority to give technical sanctions to all MGNREGA works. In one of the Panchayats in your jurisdiction, you notice that your predecessor has mismanaged the Program in terms of: (i) Money not disbursed to actual job-seekers. (ii) Muster Rolls of the Labourers not properly maintained. (iii) Mismatch between the work done and payments made. (iv) Payments made to fictitious persons. (v) Job Cards were given without looking into the need of person. (vi) Mismanagement of funds and to the extent of siphoning of funds. (vii) Approved works that never existed.(a) What is your reaction to the above situation and how do you restore the proper functioning of MGNREGA Program in this regard?(b) What actions would you initiate, to solve the various issues listed above?(c) How would you deal with the above situation?
What the examiner wants
In this MGNREGA Accountability case (You have been appointed as an Administrator Incharge of the District. You have been given the…), separate facts/constraints from the value conflict and resolve the explicit asks in order: What is your reaction to the above situation and how do you restore the proper functioning…; then What actions would you initiate, to solve the various issues listed above; then How would you deal with the above situation. Defend the preferred option against realistic alternatives.
Demand-wise check
- 1What is your reaction to the above situation and how do you restore the proper functioning of MGNREGA Program in this regard?≈65 words
- 2What actions would you initiate, to solve the various issues listed above?≈65 words
- 3How would you deal with the above situation?≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Over-writing ‘What is your reaction to the above situation and how do you restore the proper…’ while reducing ‘What actions would you initiate, to solve the various issues listed above’ to a token paragraph
- Naming values without testing each feasible option for legality, affected stakeholders, consequences, implementation risk and reversibility
Value addition
- MGNREGA Accountability: stakeholder map beside a 4-column option matrix — option | legality/ethics | consequences | mitigation
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
Official source anchors
These are authoritative sources selected for this exact PYQ. Where a card is an official-domain anchor rather than a fact-level citation, verify the precise provision, definition or data point on the linked source before using it.
Next: plan for one minute, write it in 14 minutes, then get it checked.