Workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) will be paid their wages through the Aadhaar-based payment system from 2024.

• This requires workers to seed and authenticate their Aadhaar cards with their MGNREGA job cards.
• The Union Rural Development Ministry has however stated that workers will be given exemption on a case-to-case basis, considering that 34.8% registered workers and 12.7% workers actively employed under NREGA remain ineligible for ABPS as of December 27, 2023. 
• The bank account recognised by ABPS also needs to be linked with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) mapper.