THE SUPREME Court on Monday dismissed the Centre’s appeal challenging the Calcutta High Court order asking it to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the state from August 1, 2025.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said, “We are not convinced that the impugned order requires any interference. The SLP (special leave petition) is dismissed.”

The MGNREGA scheme has been kept in abeyance in West Bengal for more than three years over allegations of irregularities in the disbursement of measures under the centrally sponsored scheme.

Hearing a petition, which raised the issue of non-payment of wages under the 100-day rural job guarantee scheme in the state, the Calcutta High Court on June 18, 2025 directed that the scheme be implemen

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