The Supreme Court on Monday (October 27) cleared the path for restarting the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in West Bengal after a gap of three and a half years.

Following the enactment of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, a hundred days of wage employment are annually provided as a legal right to adults in rural areas who are willing to do unskilled manual work. Central and State Governments provide financial assistance in the ratio of 90:10, respectively, with the Centre fully funding the wages.

Before the Centre suspended the MG-NREGS in 2022, West Bengal was among the top states — 51 to 80 lakh families in the state availed it annually between 2014-15 and 2021-22.

In its decision , the apex court dismissed the Ce

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