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NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the "anti-people" G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor - who the party has accused of being soft on BJP - taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number - "dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnam na karo".Sounding the bugle of "sansad to sadak" fight against the rural employment gurantee bill, Congress's Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Narendra Modi wants to t ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 16: The Union government has proposed a major reset of India's flagship rural employment scheme, seeking to repeal the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and replace it with a new law titled the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025. The bill seeks to replace the MGNREGA with a revamped framework aimed at aligning rural employment and development with the national vision of Viksit Bh ...Read More >
New Delhi: Setting the stage for a political face-off during the ongoing winter session of Parliament, the Centre has introduced a Bill that will replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA). The new Bill is called The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen), shortened as VB G RAM G. A whip has been issued, and BJP MPs have been asked to attend Parliament to ensure the passage of the Bill. According to the government, the new Bill pres ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Set to consign the Congress-stamped MGNREGA to history, Modi govt will unveil a new law on guaranteed unskilled rural jobs, with a structure that will shift the Centre's financial burden to states, provide fixed budgets for states instead of the present practice of it being demand-driven, and annually pause the scheme for two months during the agricultural season - in tweaks that will rewrite the concept of job guarantee from what has been known for the last two decades.Titled 'Viksit ...Read More >
Kolkata, Nov 7 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Centre to immediately implement the MGNREGA scheme in West Bengal, while granting four weeks' time to file an affidavit regarding payment of arrears to beneficiaries. Passing an interim order, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen said, "So far as payment of arrears is concerned, four weeks' time is granted to the Centre and other respondents to file their affidavit-in-opposi ...Read More >
The high court had directed that MGNREGA scheme be implemented prospectively with effect from August 1. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Centre's plea challenging the Calcutta High Court order which directed that MGNREGA, the 100-day job guarantee scheme, be implemented prospectively in West Bengal from August 1, 2025. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta refused to entertain the plea filed against the June 18 order of the high court, saying the high court's o ...Read More >
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