MGNREGA was not a scheme that offered work. It was a law that owed it. Every rural household that asked was entitled to a hundred days of paid work in a year, and to be paid within a fortnight. This traces what was actually delivered, district by district. The figures describe the MGNREGA years and end at repeal. The Act was repealed from 1 July 2026 and replaced by the Viksit Bharat G RAM G Act 2025, which raises the guarantee to 125 days.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, Schedule II: wages shall be paid within fifteen days of the week in which the work was done, and a delay entitles the worker to compensation. Whether that happened is not something this data can tell you, and the last panel explains why.
Average days of employment provided per household that worked. The dashed line is 100, the number the Act guarantees on demand. No state has ever reached it.
Households that completed 100 days, as a share of all households that worked at all that year.
Women's share of person-days. The Act sets a floor of at least one third women among beneficiaries, shown as the dashed line.
Every district the source reports, for the selected year. Type a district or state name to filter.