MGNREG Scheme Permissible activities

MGNREG Scheme Permissible activities as stipulated in para 1 of Schedule-I of Mahatma Gandhi NREGA are as under:

(i) water conservation and water harvesting;
(ii) drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation;
(iii) irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works;
(iv) provision of irrigation facility, horticulture plantation and land development facilities to land owned by households belonging to the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes or Below Poverty Line families or to beneficiaries of land reforms or to the beneficiaries under the Indira Awas Yojna of the Government of India or that of small farmers or marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008. (The benefits of works on individual lands have been extended to small and marginal farmers vide notification dated 22.7.2009)
(v) renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of tanks;
(vi) land development;
(vii) flood control and protection works including drainage in water logged areas;
(viii) rural connectivity to provide all-weather access.
(ix) Construction of Bharat Nirman, Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendra as Village Knowledge Resource Centre and Gram Panchayat Bhawan at Gram Panchayat level (included vide Notification dated 11.11.2009).
(x) any other work which may be notified by the Central Government in consultation with the State Government.