India, June 18 -- The Calcutta high court directed on Wednesday that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme must be resumed in West Bengal from August 1 but allowed the Centre to impose conditions and restrictions in the state in view of the allegations of financial irregularities in disbursement of central funds, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

The order was passed by the division bench of chief justice TS Sivagnanam and justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) after a series of hearings on a petition the Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoor Samity, a farmers' body, filed last year against the Union government, challenging the non-payment of dues to daily wage labourers over allegations of embezzlement of fund...