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A 60:40 wage and material ratio has to be maintained. No contractors
and machinery are allowed.

The Central Government bears the 100% wage cost of unskilled manual

labour and 75% of the material cost, including the wages of skilled and

semi-skilled workers.

Social Audit has to be done by the Gram Sabha.

Grievance redressal mechanisms have to be put in place for ensuring a

responsive implementation process.
All accounts and records relating to the Scheme should be available for

public scrutiny.

MGNREGA started with an initial outlay of $2.5bn (`11,300cr) in 2006–

07. The funding has been increased considerably, as shown in the table
below:

Total Outlay (TO) (in billion Wage Expenditure (per cent
Year
dollars) of TO)

2006–
2.5 66
07

2007–
2.6 68
08

2008–
6.6 67
09

2009–
8.68 70
10

2010–
8.91 71
11

Implementation