Government scheme
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
From our government schemes research
Official source ↗Legal guarantee of wage employment days per rural household per financial year
What you should know
- Category
- Employment
- Also known as
- MGNREGS
- Ministry
- Ministry of Rural Development
- Department
- Department of Rural Development
- Level
- Central
- Launched
- 2006
- Subsidy
- No
- Loan support
- No
- Coverage
- National (rural); every rural household demanding work
- How to apply
- Offline (Gram Panchayat work demand); Online (NREGASoft)
- Status
- Active
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