New Delhi, March 19 -- The central government has released Rs 7.8 lakh crore from 2014-15 to 2024-25 under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA), resulting in the creation of as many as 8.07 crore rural assets, the government said on Wednesday.

Ministry of Rural Development said in a release that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 was launched to enhance livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

The release said that fund allocation has increased continuously over the last 1...