Public Works

To strengthen the positive synergy between MGNREGA and agriculture and allied rural livelihoods, to respond to the demands of the States for greater location specific flexibility in permissible works and to help improve the ecological balance in rural India and to provide a cleaner, healthier environment for the rural population, it has been decided to expand the list of permissible works as under.
The MGNREGA Schedule I & II have been amended accordingly.
While implementing these works, the following should be adhered to:
1. All works shall be approved by the Gram Sabha and the Gram Panchayat and shall be part of the Annual Shelf of Projects.
2. The unit costs included in the works below are indicative and project costs for each work will be estimated depending on the Schedule of Rates (SoR's) prevalent in the respective region/area of work.
3. All activities mentioned in items (iv), (x), (xi) and items (xiii) to (xv) of paragraph 1B of Schedule I of the Act, shall be allowed on land or homestead owned by households belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or below poverty line families or the beneficiaries of land reforms or the beneficiaries under the Indira Awas Yojana of the Government of India or that of the small or marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008, or the beneficiaries under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007).
4. For works to be taken up on private land and homestead, the individual land owner shall be a job card holder and also work in the project.
5. It should be ensured that the total material cost (including wages of skilled and semi-skilled workers) of all works in the Annual Shelf of Projects (including the works suggested under Para IC of Schedule I taken up in a Gram Panchayat, in a Financial Year, should not exceed 40 %
6. Only those components of admissible works that lead to creation of durable assets may be taken up under MGNREGA. Items of expenditure that are recurring in nature and/or do not lead to creation of durable assets, are not permitted under MGNREGA.