Unlike MGNREGA’s Centre-heavy financing, the proposed VB-G RAM–G framework introduces a 60:40 funding model, shifting greater ...
The author argues that VB-G-RAM-G strengthens, not scraps, MGNREGA by expanding job guarantees, curbing leakages, creating ...
Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB- G RAM G, Bill was passed by Parliament on December 18. It will replace the MGNREGA Act, which provided a guaranteed wage employment to rural ...
Rahul Gandhi said the proposed VB-G RAM G Bill's 40% cost shift to states would undermine MGNREGA's core principles, weaken ...
By replacing MGNREGA’s legal job guarantee with a centrally controlled, budget-capped scheme, the new law has raised concerns ...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly opposing the Centre’s proposed ...
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) took up discussion on Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika ...
People’s and farm rights groups under the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha condemned the proposed VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025, to replace ...
Describing the bill as an attempt to "dismantle the Right to Work," Kharge warned that the move would push the poorest sections of society back into hunger, unemployment, and distress, and asserted ...
Bengaluru, December 22 (IANS): AICC General Secretary Sachin Pilot on Monday said the Union government was "destroying" the ...
On Monday, with the Narendra Modi government proposing a new bill to replace the law, Shekhar’s safety net might be under ...
Opinion

G RAM G masks economic failure

In 2011-12, roughly 100 million rural Indians sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which increased to 130 million last ...