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How much work did MGNREGS provide each year?

230.6 crore person-days
2025-26▼ 60.1 vs 2024-25

MoRD · released 4 Aug 2026

How much work did MGNREGS provide each year?
PeriodValue (crore person-days)
2025-26230.6
2024-25290.7
2023-24309.2
2022-23294.0
2021-22363.3
2020-21389.1
2019-20265.4
2018-19268.0

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MGNREGS generated 230.6 crore person-days of work in 2025-26, compared with 290.7 crore person-days in 2024-25 (Ministry of Rural Development). Source: Ministry of Rural Development: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 2752 (4 Aug 2026) and State Performance Reports 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25.

Cite as: Mahatma Gandhi NREGS MIS (NREGASoft), as reported to Parliament and in State Performance Reports (Department of Rural Development), 2025-26

What this shows

  • MGNREGS generated 230.6 crore person-days in 2025-26, its last full year, down from 290.7 crore in 2024-25 and well below the pandemic peak of 389.1 crore in 2020-21.
  • The scheme guaranteed 100 days of unskilled manual work a year to every rural household that asked; in 2024-25 households got 50.2 days on average and women did 58.1% of the work.
  • From 1 July 2026 it was replaced by the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Aajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G), which guarantees 125 days; its figures are not comparable and are not added here.

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Mahatma Gandhi NREGS MIS (NREGASoft), as reported to Parliament and in State Performance Reports (Department of Rural Development), 2025-26

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Source and method

Source
Ministry of Rural Development: Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 2752 (4 Aug 2026) and State Performance Reports 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25
Table
2025-26: LSQ 2752 Annexure, Total, 23,055.34 lakh (as on 31.07.2026); 2024-25: State Performance Report 2024-25, Annexure III total 2,90,65,05,713; 2023-24: State Performance Report 2023-24, performance overview, 309.16 crore (as on 31.03.2024); 2018-19 to 2022-23: State Performance Report 2022-23, Table 1
Released
4 Aug 2026
Retrieved
20 Oct 2026
Next due
None: the scheme has ended
Processing
2025-26 published in lakh person-days, divided by 100 to give crore; 2024-25 published as a count, divided by 10 crore. Others copied as published.
Licence
GODL-India
What exactly is measured

Person-days of work generated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in each financial year, in crore, from the Ministry of Rural Development. This is a closed series: MGNREGA was repealed and the VB–G RAM G Act, guaranteeing 125 days, came into force on 1 July 2026, so 2025-26 is the last full year. Each year is taken from the latest Ministry document that reports it; the scheme's MIS keeps adding late entries after a year closes.

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  1. 8 periods, latest 2025-26: 230.6 crore person-days · first snapshotArchived source89fc97a36117
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  • 23,055.34 lakh person-days2025-26, Lok Sabha answer (as on 31.07.2026)

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