In recent years, attendance sheets at worksites under India’s flagship social security scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), were manually filled out. However, as of 1 January 2023, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) mandated the use of a mobile app, the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS), for recording attendance. On 30 January 30 2023, MoRD issued another directive, declaring that all payments under the scheme must be made through the Aadhaar-based Payment System (ABPS), effective 1 February 2023. Following these directives, many MGNREGA workers staged a 60-day protest, demanding the rollback of both the NMMS app and ABPS. This chapter examines these two surveillance tools: (a) the app-based digital attendance system and (b) the seeding of bank accounts with biometric Aadhaar cards. It aims to explore the nature and scope of welfare surveillance used to monitor workers enrolled in the government’s rural employment programme. The government’s active collection and use of information to distinguish between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries raises broader concerns related to the right to work and dignity. This chapter seeks to explore how welfare surveillance, leveraged by the government to deliver social security schemes to millions of poor and marginalised people in rural India, often leads to exclusion and denial of benefits. More importantly, it will highlight the major consequences of welfare surveillance for MGNREGA workers and their reactions.