Parliament Question: Central and State share under the Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1738 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13/02/2026 CENTRAL AND STATE SHARE UNDER THE RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEMES 1738 Dr. John Brittas: Will the Minister of Rural Development be pleased to state: (a) total States’ share contributed under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during the last five years, State-wise and year-wise, details thereof; (b) total Central share disbursed under MGNREGS during the last five years, State-wise and year-wise, details thereof; and (c) the amounts anticipated by the Ministry as the States’ and Central share under the new Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission(Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025, for the next financial year, the details thereof, State-wise? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN) (a): Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) is a demand driven wage employment Scheme. Under the provisions of the scheme, 100% of expenditure of the wage and administrative component is borne by the Central Government. Whereas 75% of the expenditure under the material component is borne by Central Government and 25% is shared by the States/UTs. Details of the funds released by the State/Union Territory (UT) under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last five financial years are given at Annexure-I. (b): State/Union Territory (UT)-wise details of total central funds released under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last five financial years is given at Annexure-II. (c): The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, provides to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work, not less than one hundred and twenty-five days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year. As per Sub-section (4) of Section 22 of the Act, 'The Central Government shall determine the State-wise normative allocation for each state based on objective parameters as may be prescribed by the Central Government. As per Section 22 of the Act, the Scheme implemented under the Act shall be a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and the fund-sharing pattern between the Central Government and the State Government shall be 90:10 for the North-Eastern States, Himalayan States (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir) and Union Territory and 60:40 for all other States and Union Territories with legislature. ***** Page 1 of 3Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1738 dated 13.02.2026. Details of the funds released by the State/Union Territory (UT) under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last five financial years. (Rs. in lakh) SI. State 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 No. Andaman and 1 0 0 0 0 0 Nicobar 2 Andhra Pradesh 0 0 15689.3 54767.3 45329.2 Arunachal 3 2429.67 4059.22 5455.45 4041.55 3779.38 Pradesh 4 Assam 17221.22 12606.77 7405.43 3577.74 3316.11 5 Bihar 19990.78 83349.1 19185.01 74757.92 39633.65 6 Chhattisgarh 37303.21 44600.41 28117.66 44397.41 38625.1 Dadra & Nagar 7 Haveli Daman & 0 0 0 0 0 Diu 8 Goa 10.15 88.52 35.73 0 35.88 9 Gujarat 13736.72 11482.4 22284.44 24337.62 10951.2 10 Haryana 5422.31 6098.29 3858.05 3811.48 5595.05 11 Himachal Pradesh 12345.61 14000 13332.59 13698.1 23524.12 Jammu and 12 8345.79 1113.48 0 0 0 Kashmir 13 Jharkhand 0 0 14683.3 10665.3 9354.65 14 Karnataka 6110 0 0 0 0 15 Kerala 18430.17 20390.89 17013.26 17022.41 0 16 Ladakh 0 0 0 0 0 17 Lakshadweep 0 0 0 0 0 18 Madhya Pradesh 88548.36 81747.23 25115.36 62817.1 50508.66 19 Maharashtra 0 61520.84 52606.91 70651.9 79868.42 20 Manipur 9659.55 9111.97 2580.78 11004.5 1205.1 21 Meghalaya 18996.7 7996.5 14889.22 10064.9 13915.72 22 Mizoram 3861.66 3256.02 0 3584.23 537.28 23 Nagaland 80.28 9089.34 7076.41 8080.92 4690.66 24 Odisha 19665.82 0 25095.05 0 0 25 Puducherry 0 0 0 0 0 26 Punjab 7546.82 8900.82 14327.42 52875 10000 27 Rajasthan 44407.19 52776.7 45424.5 45033.3 2070.85 28 Sikkim 620.81 787 725 557 750 29 Tamil Nadu 39975.93 22956.2 65870.32 54047.2 44017.4 30 Telangana 59962 0 30494.03 34644.62 48892.32 31 Tripura 4850.07 6290.48 7347.18 4058.73 7748.35 32 Uttar Pradesh 106250.73 25607.1 122231.9 78980.49 84203.6 33 Uttarakhand 7803.48 3322.95 12642.16 4800.4 5474.05 34 West Bengal 54811.18 89541.25 19750 4110 0 Total 608386.21 580693.48 593236.46 696387.12 534026.75 As per entries made by States/UTs in NREGASoft Page 2 of 3Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1738 dated 13.02.2026. State/Union Territory (UT)-wise details of total central funds released under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS during the last five financial years is (Rs. in crore) SI. No. States/UTs 2024-25 2023-24 2022-23 2021-22 2020-21 1 Andhra Pradesh 7707.21 7353.67 8008.81 7195.81 10306.3 2 Arunachal Pradesh 560.7 427.35 578.32 453.74 340.52 3 Assam 1929.7 2221.38 2055.28 2223.32 2605.77 4 Bihar 6715.83 6200.03 6403.07 5407.37 7288.09 5 Chhattisgarh 3354.85 2895.12 3396.94 3894.34 3959.69 6 Goa 3.7 0.88 5.12 0.04 3.57 7 Gujarat 1540.54 1802.26 1692.07 1615.24 1478.77 8 Haryana 590.19 477.87 373.99 723.73 764.55 9 Himachal Pradesh 1203.28 1000.96 1162.83 976.34 950.39 10 Jammu & Kashmir 1151.2 921.6 1050.99 950.14 1152.7 11 Jharkhand 2705.64 2922.27 2712.91 3067.88 3434.94 12 Karnataka 5709.9 5431.67 6232.83 6034.89 5510.61 13 Kerala 3136.44 3532.57 3832.43 3554.85 4286.97 14 Madhya Pradesh 6252.03 5891.65 5711.77 8479.09 9088.68 15 Maharashtra 4420.32 3041.48 2552.01 2056.46 1605.82 16 Manipur 581.99 0.95 1086.63 563.11 1307.23 17 Meghalaya 1155.09 913.86 1118.76 1123.32 1287.1 18 Mizoram 611.65 507.96 540.39 550.51 592.16 19 Nagaland 287.85 641.5 899.76 570.56 484.97 20 Odisha 3763.8 4906.78 4645.73 5687.28 5224.03 21 Punjab 1331.61 1169.84 1182.13 1259.2 1241.07 22 Rajasthan 7581.87 8683.98 9662.99 9867.75 8922.22 23 Sikkim 97.57 112.19 92.71 112.79 110.86 24 Tamil Nadu 7585.49 12616.53 9743.53 9648.36 8795.91 25 Telangana 3825.31 3520.87 2999.11 4116.1 4122.66 26 Tripura 1041.7 1043.59 924.6 990.14 1195.23 27 Uttar Pradesh 9721.48 9844.25 10652.24 8525.15 12046.5 28 Uttarakhand 626.43 553.81 794.72 642.6 889.75 29 West Bengal* 0 0 1.33 7507.8 11468.51 30 Andaman & Nicobar 4.44 0 9.6 7.68 4.86 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 31 Daman & Diu 9.02 2.21 1.62 0 0 32 Lakshadweep 0.32 0 0 0.3 0 33 Puducherry 40.56 58.77 24.95 13.07 26.84 34 Ladakh 85.98 62.64 68.93 59.04 22.64 Total 85333.69 88760.49 90219.10 97878.00 110519.91 *The release of funds to the State of West Bengal under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) was stopped with effect from 09.03.2022 by invoking the provisions of Section 27 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, owing to continued non-compliance with the directives of the Central Government by the State. ***** Page 3 of 3