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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5215
ANSWERED ON 24/03/2026
WORKERS UNDER MGNREGS
5215. Shri Kalyan Banerjee:
Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:
(a) the total number of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers in the country since the
year 2020 to till 31 January 2026, State and year-wise;
(b) the details of Central Budget allocation and sanctions for
MGNREGS since the year 2021 to till 31 January, 2026, Year-
wise and State-wise;
(c) the details of budget and allocation for financial year 2026-27
against the fully funded centrally funded for unskilled wages
under MGNREGS with VB-G-RAM-G schemes a 60:40
(Centre:State) funding, State-wise;
(d) the details of State Exchequer (40 per cent) now needed in State
Budget for the financial year 2026-27; and
(e) the detailed report from States regarding confirmation of funds
to arrange on account of 40 per cent State funding to achieve
100 per cent of enhance employment to 125 days from present
100 days per household?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)
(a): States/UTs and year wise number of workers who availed
employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) since financial year
2020-21 to current financial year 2025-26 (as on 19.03.2026) is given
at Annexure-I.
(b): The details of funds allocation at Budget Estimate stage and
Revised Estimate stage under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS since
Page 1 of 4financial year 2020-21 to current financial year 2025-26 (as on
19.03.2026) are given below:
(Rs. in crore)
SI. Financial Year Budget Revised
No. Estimate Estimate
1 2020-21 61,500.00 1,11,500.00
2 2021-22 73,000.00 98,000.00
3 2022-23 73,000.00 89,400.00
4 2023-24 60,000.00 86,000.00
5 2024-25 86,000.00 86,000.00
6 2025-26 (as on 86,000.00 88,000.00
18.03.2026)
There is no State/UT-wise allocation of funds under Mahatma Gandhi
NREGS. State/UT-wise, details of total funds released under
Mahatma Gandhi NREGS since 2020-21 to current financial year 2025-
26 (as on 31.01.2026) are given at Annexure-II.
(c) to (e): The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika
Mission (Gramin) VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, provides for one hundred
and twenty-five days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial
year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do
unskilled manual work.
As the Act is yet to commence, the Ministry is yet to finalise the
detailed rules, including those relating to normative allocation based
on objective parameters, in due consultation with States/UTs.
Here it is also stated that for the financial year 2026–27, a Central
share provision of Rs. 95,692.31 crore has been made for the Viksit
Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin),
representing the largest allocation ever for rural employment
progamme at Budget Estimate Stage. With the likely inclusion of the
corresponding estimated State share, the total programme outlay is
likely to exceed Rs.1.51 lakh crore, which is expected to significantly
accelerate rural transformation, large-scale employment generation
and income enhancement in rural areas.
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Page 2 of 4Annexure-I
Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 5215
dated 24.03.2026.
States/UTs and year wise number of workers who availed employment under Mahatma
Gandhi NREGS since financial year 2020-21 to current financial year 2025-26 (as on
19.03.2026).
S. Number of workers who availed employment
States/UTs
No. 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
Andhra
1 7952471 7737145 7599041 7542774 7523182 6752792
Pradesh
Arunachal
2 243521 278558 287823 282304 311382 357364
Pradesh
3 Assam 3572836 3987736 3430173 3347851 2634302 2295427
4 Bihar 5814920 5411860 5775151 5383600 5617876 5600915
5 Chhattisgarh 6017874 5503994 4718431 4413569 4483759 3819569
6 Goa 4365 3478 3862 2186 3192 2508
7 Gujarat 1931861 1843874 1630751 1511621 1306179 1025706
8 Haryana 651129 569854 440703 524003 478817 373839
Himachal
9 891622 995654 880712 949218 1026189 728719
Pradesh
Jammu And
10 1127905 1085127 989074 993446 1055726 1044077
Kashmir
11 Jharkhand 3204487 3099049 2497483 2559494 2311217 2596851
12 Karnataka 5668569 6361291 5315915 5402381 5170454 3920788
13 Kerala 1882654 1898995 1758623 1661622 1540284 1384371
14 Ladakh 38058 37457 39176 36516 37175 37494
Madhya
15 10530733 9568909 7550368 6373186 5772266 5915103
Pradesh
16 Maharashtra 3109789 3688009 3706159 4128113 5111982 5983728
17 Manipur 604230 593711 374635 503268 565779 570099
18 Meghalaya 752426 731124 645192 629087 544506 558616
19 Mizoram 222695 213601 218722 211413 211355 219636
20 Nagaland 418825 463815 491446 468211 216328 282674
21 Odisha 6214748 5553162 5174500 4991241 3376574 3528303
22 Punjab 1184204 1072149 1018291 1015694 984897 888478
23 Rajasthan 11097642 10085964 8807151 8696618 7723309 5941660
24 Sikkim 76985 74550 71020 70327 68677 61466
25 Tamil Nadu 7852828 7995928 7579248 7939116 7433962 6210516
26 Telangana 5428833 4878034 4544958 4062113 4244190 3330688
27 Tripura 833205 852510 819531 842843 813522 762069
Uttar
28 11602821 9543614 8367847 8127953 7582510 6174082
Pradesh
29 Uttarakhand 909281 792067 681227 638095 575324 480121
30 West Bengal 11826053 11121629 2020079 9415 0 0
Andaman And
31 9532 5715 5387 5025 3523 2422
Nicobar
Dn Haveli
32 0 0 0 2188 10496 9423
And Dd
33 Lakshadweep 75 24 101 77 0 0
34 Puducherry 53406 41030 45511 58705 50264 50099
Total 111730583 106089617 87488291 83383273 78789198 70909603
As per NREGASoft
Page 3 of 4Annexure-II
Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 5215 dated
24.03.2026.
State/UT-wise, details of total funds released under Mahatma Gandhi NREGS since 2020-21
to current financial year 2025-26 (as on 31.01.2026) (Rs. in crore)
SI.
States/UTs 2025-26 2024-25 2023-24 2022-23 2021-22 2020-21
No.
1 Andhra Pradesh 7203.29 7707.21 7353.67 8008.81 7195.81 10306.30
2 Arunachal Pradesh 586.53 560.70 427.35 578.32 453.74 340.52
3 Assam 1652.77 1929.70 2221.38 2056.49 2223.32 2605.77
4 Bihar 7649.56 6715.83 6200.03 6402.23 5407.37 7288.09
5 Chhattisgarh 2701.47 3354.85 2895.12 3420.39 3894.34 3959.69
6 Goa 2.76 3.70 0.88 5.05 0.04 3.57
7 Gujarat 952.71 1540.54 1802.26 1694.60 1615.24 1478.77
8 Haryana 449.38 590.19 477.87 373.99 723.73 764.55
9 Himachal Pradesh 967.58 1203.28 1000.96 1164.85 976.34 950.39
10 Jammu & Kashmir 1155.58 1151.20 921.60 1051.00 950.14 1152.70
11 Jharkhand 2957.48 2705.64 2922.27 2719.03 3067.88 3434.94
12 Karnataka 3342.36 5709.90 5431.67 6218.59 6034.89 5510.61
13 Kerala 2831.75 3136.44 3532.57 3830.97 3554.85 4286.97
14 Madhya Pradesh 4939.97 6252.03 5891.65 5707.47 8479.09 9088.68
15 Maharashtra 6117.11 4420.32 3041.48 2545.89 2056.46 1605.82
16 Manipur 959.26 581.99 0.95 1086.63 563.11 1307.23
17 Meghalaya 1065.03 1155.09 913.86 1118.77 1123.32 1287.10
18 Mizoram 549.30 611.65 507.96 540.40 550.51 592.16
19 Nagaland 362.69 287.85 641.50 839.76 570.56 484.97
20 Odisha 3502.53 3763.80 4906.78 4707.52 5687.28 5224.03
21 Punjab 970.29 1331.61 1169.84 1182.14 1259.20 1241.07
22 Rajasthan 6076.32 7581.87 8683.98 9648.65 9867.75 8922.22
23 Sikkim 104.75 97.57 112.19 92.71 112.79 110.86
24 Tamil Nadu 6860.83 7585.49 12616.53 9745.72 9648.36 8795.91
25 Telangana 2404.20 3825.31 3520.87 2992.21 4116.10 4122.66
26 Tripura 740.54 1041.70 1043.59 925.34 990.14 1195.23
27 Uttar Pradesh 8787.90 9721.48 9844.25 10650.64 8525.15 12046.50
28 Uttarakhand 420.71 626.43 553.81 792.66 642.60 889.75
29 West Bengal * 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.33 7507.80 11468.51
30 Andaman & Nicobar 2.46 4.44 0.00 9.60 7.68 4.86
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
31 Daman & Diu 7.96 9.02 2.21 0.00 0.00 0.00
32 Lakshadweep 0.00 0.32 0.00 24.95 0.30 0.00
33 Puducherry 39.86 40.56 58.77 69.00 13.07 26.84
34 Ladakh 69.33 85.98 62.64 1.62 59.04 22.64
Total 76434.25 85333.70 88760.50 90207.30 97878.01 110519.93
* Release of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS) to the State of West Bengal has been stopped since 09th
March, 2022 as per the provisions of Section 27 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, due to non-compliance with the directives of the Central
Government.
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