MGNREGA

Budget 2025 | Only 7% households, on average, have worked the full 100 days guaranteed under the programme, while wages remain low and allocations are not keeping pace.

Since 2019, the budget allocation for the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) that has 129 million active workers has been consistently lower than or at most same as the previous year’s revised estimates

Exploring the Unravelling Threads of MGNREGA: How Budget Cuts, Bureaucratic Hurdles, and Unpaid Wages Threaten Millions of Rural Livelihoods