NREGASoft has certain in-built checks like:

• Only adults (age 18 and above) can register under MGNREGA.
• The system does not allow allocation of employment for more than 100 days in a year to a household. (however this check can be relaxed if a State is so willing)
• Work allocation cannot be done without demand.
• E-MR can be generated after work allocation only.
• Households are eligible for unemployment allowances if employment has not been provided after 15 days of demand.
• MR will be issued for a period within FY only and cannot spill over to next year.
• Two or more MRs of a work can either be for same period or for disjointed period only.
• Payment date cannot be entered if at least equal amount of funds are not available with paying authority
• Fund transferred from one level should first be received by the other level for further fund utilisation or transfer to other levels.
• Work will be treated as approved only after technical and administrative sanction has been accorded and all details are entered in MIS.
• Measurement Book can be filled only for those activities which are included in technical estimate of work and approved by appropriate authority.
• Only that material can be booked for a work in bill/ vouchers which is entered in technical estimate of work.
• No expenditure can be booked against a work after it is shown as completed in MIS.
• Job card number of the owner of the private land or homestead on which work is taken-up, must be entered along with work details.
• Wage paid cannot be more than MGNREGA notified wage rate.
• A worker cannot be provided employment on different works for same period.