The Maharashtra government sets aside ₹6,728 crore under the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) to create local employment and provide support to farmers, farm labourers and rural workers amid drought-like conditions, EGS minister Bharat Gogawale says.
The funds are intended for employment-linked works and for building long-term village assets. Gogawale says the government will take up 375 types of individual and public-benefit works, with an emphasis on water conservation and agriculture-related infrastructure. Individual-benefit activities include irrigation and recharge works such as borewell recharge, orchard plantations, cattle sheds and other agriculture and household-related assets. Public-benefit works include repairing and maintaining community ponds and water structures, building earthen bunds and retaining structures, and improving farm access roads.
Across reporting, the allocation is described as being routed through the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme and related agencies, including VB-G RAM G (Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin). Both outlets also note the funding pattern: 60% contribution from the Centre and 40% from the state, along with allocations by region (including Amravati, Konkan, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nagpur and Pune).
