The Union Ministry of Rural Development is currently in the “process of reworking and refining the necessary modalities and procedures” to resume the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in West Bengal, it told the Rajya Sabha on Friday (December 5, 2025).

Union Minister of State Kamlesh Paswan filed this reply to a question raised by the Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’ Brien.

The Centre stopped releasing MGNREGA funds to West Bengal in March 2022, citing the State’s continued non-compliance with Central directives, and invoking the provisions of Section 27 of the Act. In June this year, the Calcutta High Court ordered the resumption of MGNREGA in the State. The Centre appealed to the Supreme Court, which sustained the High Court’s order

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