Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 aims at enhancing the livelihood security of the households in the rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult member volunteer to do unskilled manual labour. This enactment creates a rights-based framework for wage employment programmes and makes the Government legally accountable for providing employment to those who seek it.
The Act was notified in Palakkad and Wayanad districts with effect from 2nd February, 2006 and then extended to Kasaragod and Idukki districts with effect from 1st April , 2007. The remaining ten districts were notified under the Act with effect from 1st April, 2008. Thus Mahatma Gandhi NREGS covers the entire State with the exception of the urban areas.
Mahatma Gandhi NREGA State Mission is the wing implementing the scheme in the state.
Mahatma Gandhi NREGA State Mission
5th Floor, Swaraj Bhavan,
Nanthancode, Kowdiar PO,
Thiruvananthapuram - 695003
District Level Contacts
# | District | District Programme Coordinator | Joint Programme Coordinator | Toll free Number |
1 | Thiruvananthapuram | 0471-2731177 | 0471-2360122 | 1800 425 4373 |
2 | Kollam | 0474-2794900 | 0474-2790411 | 1800 425 7800 |
3 | Pathanamthitta | 0468-2222505 | 04682-222696 | 1800 425 7552 |
4 | Alappuzha | 0477-2251720 | 0477-2262068 | 1800 425 1063 |
5 | Kottayam | 0481-2562001 | 0481-2560721 | 1800 425 3027 |
6 | Idukki | 04862-233103 | 04862-233047 | 1800 425 5060 |
7 | Ernakulam | 0484-2423001 | 0484-2427530 | 1800 425 1355 |
8 | Thrissur | 0487-2361020 | 0487-2364095 | 1800 425 5720 |
9 | Palakkad | 0491-2505266 | 0491-2505859 | 1800 425 5216 |
10 | Malappuram | 0483-2734355 | 0483-2732345 | 1800 425 4976 |
11 | Kozhikkode | 0495-2371400 | 0495-2371283 | 1800 425 4536 |
12 | Wayanad | 04936-202230 | 04936-205959 | 1800 425 6959 |
13 | Kannur | 0497-2700243 | 0497-2700143 | 1800 425 0143 |
14 | Kasargod | 04994-256400 | 04994-255944 | 1800 425 5920 |
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