New Delhi, June 18 -- The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the Centre to resume the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in West Bengal from August 1, 2025, after nearly three years of suspension.

The division bench, led by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das), allowed the Centre to impose special conditions, restrictions, and regulations-measures not applied in other states-to prevent any recurrence of irregularities during the scheme's rollout in West Bengal.

The court acknowledged that the Centre had identified certain irregularities in the disbursement of wages under MGNREGA in the state. It noted that action had already been taken, recover...