How to check MGNREGA wage payment and FTO status in 2026

1. Get the numbers at the Gram Panchayat: muster roll number and date of closure, wage list number, FTO number.
2. Open vbgramg.dord.gov.in, checking the host ends in .dord.gov.in.
3. Use Search and pick Fund Transfer Order, WageList, MusterRoll or JobCardNo. State and District are mandatory, and there is no all-India name search.
4. For a panchayat view, open Analytics and Reports, then MIS Report. After a small arithmetic sum, pick State, Financial Year, District, Block, Panchayat.
5. Ignore Payment Dashboard there. It is an officials' login, not a citizen route.

The quickest honest check is the card in your hand. Schedule II, paragraph 1(7) requires the State to keep it updated with days demanded, days allotted, the work description with its muster roll number, measurement details, any unemployment allowance, the date-wise wages paid and the delay compensation paid.

A blank card where wages should be is itself your evidence. Paragraph 2(1) also entitles you to a dated receipt for every work application.

Schedule II, paragraph 6(3) splits wage payment into named stages, each with a time limit and a responsible officer. Ask which stage your money sits at.

• Measurement of work, due at the worksite within three days of muster closure under Schedule I, paragraph 16(1). No measurement, no payment.
• Computerising the muster rolls, each e-muster carrying a unique number.
• Computerising the measurements.
• Generation of wage lists, where your name and amount appear.
• Uploading the Fund Transfer Order, which moves the money.
• Credit to the account, which paragraph 7 makes into each worker's own savings account at a Bank or Post Office, so it is per worker, not per household.
• The compensation itself, which paragraph 6(2) treats as a further wage delay once 15 days late.

The portal's later payment screens, including PFMS pendency, sit behind an officials' login. Ask the Block in writing, or file the RTI below.

• Compensation is automatic. Paragraph 6(4) makes the system calculate it from muster closure to the date wages reached your account. Paragraph 6(5) makes the State pay upfront, then recover from whoever delayed it.
• It must be visible. Paragraph 6(7) requires days of delay and compensation payable and paid to appear in the portal's records.
• Two clocks, not one. Wages run from the date the work was done. Compensation runs from closure of the muster roll.

Section 25(2) names delayed or unpaid wages as a grievance, and Schedule I, paragraph 28 sets the ladder.

• Complain in writing, by telephone, online or orally, and take the dated acknowledgement you are owed.
• Enquiry must finish within seven working days and redress within 15 days. Anything unresolved then escalates automatically.
• Appeals run Gram Panchayat, then Programme Officer, then District Programme Coordinator. File within 45 days, disposal within 30 days.
• Every District has an Ombudsperson under Schedule I, paragraph 29. Online, use Grievance Redressal.

No toll-free helpline is published on the portal, so use these routes.

Stuck past a fortnight, demand the record under section 6(1) of the RTI Act, 2005. Reply is due in 30 days, section 7(1).

File an RTI to: the Public Information Officer, office of the Programme Officer or Block Development Officer

Ask these 5 questions:

1. Muster roll number and its date of closure
2. Date of measurement under Schedule I, paragraph 16(1)
3. Wage list number, FTO number and FTO date
4. Date of credit, or the reason the payment failed
5. Delay compensation calculated under Schedule II, paragraph 6, and the officer with whom the file is pending

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It is set by State. Rates in force from 1 July 2026 came by S.O. 3518(E) under section 10 and run from 300 to 450 rupees a day. See the wage rate list.

Yes. Under Schedule II, paragraph 2 the demand may be oral or written, and must be registered with a dated receipt. If work does not come in 15 days, unemployment allowance is due under section 11.

Schedule II, paragraph 3(2) requires at least one-third of beneficiaries to be women who registered and requested work.

Wages reach your own account at a Bank or Post Office, so check that passbook, not a household member's. If nothing landed, take the FTO number and date to the Block.

Start at the Ward, Gram Panchayat, Block or District grievance point and insist on a dated acknowledgement. Unredressed in 15 days it escalates automatically. Then appeal, or go to the District Ombudsperson.

Get the muster roll, wage list and FTO numbers from the Gram Panchayat, then search them on the portal.

• If card and portal agree → the wage line is moving, so allow the fortnight
• If wages are past a fortnight → count days from muster closure, then use the AI RTI Drafter
• If the payment was rejected → demand reasons in writing, as section 4(1)(d) of the RTI Act supports
• For state-specific guidance → see state-by-state guide

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Read next: The RTI Playbook — practical help with drafting and appeals.

• VB-G RAM G Act, 2025: Gazette text, sections 5, 10, 11 and 25, Schedule II paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, and Schedule I paragraphs 16, 28 and 29
• Commencement S.O. 2382 of 2026, wage rates S.O. 3518 of 2026
• Ministry of Rural Development FAQ, 11 May 2026
• vbgramg.dord.gov.in, its search, MIS Report, legacy nrega.dord.gov.in and dord.gov.in
• RTI Act, 2005, sections 4(1)(d), 6(1) and 7(1)

Last reviewed on 11 September 2026. Always confirm the live position on the official portal.