New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Setting the ball rolling for the implementation of Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) — VB G RAM G, the Centre on Monday notified the commencement of the rural employment guarantee scheme.The law, replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), will come into effect across all rural areas from July 1, while the latter will stand repealed from the same date.Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, b…
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New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The Congress said on Tuesday that its ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’ is reaching 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats, accusing the Union government of letting loose a bulldozer on the rural job schemes of the UPA-era. Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Sabha MP MP and Congress General Secretary Communications In-charge, in a message on social media platform X, said, “The Union government has run a bulldozer over the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, which has bec…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, on Tuesday, accused the opposition parties of spreading false propaganda about the newly enacted Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, describing the scheme as “anti-poor” and “anti-farmer”. Speaking at a press conference at the state BJP office, CM Majhi said that the primary objective of the VB–G RAM G scheme, which replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Sche…
Lucknow, Jan 6 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday that the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission – Gramin (VB-G RAM G) Act is going to prove to be a milestone for achieving Viksit Bharat 2047 and hit out at the Congress and its allies for criticising the new rural job law. Addressing mediapersons, the Chief Minister said the VB-G RAM G law will boost rural infrastructure and development in states, as a precursor to building a developed Bhara…
Chandigarh, Jan 3 (IANS) BJP Punjab President Sunil Jakhar on Saturday said the party would launch an awareness campaign from January 7 to make the public aware about the Viksit Bharat — Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025, which has been formulated in the interest of the poor. In a statement, he said the campaign would begin in the Fazilka district. The Union government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has followed the policy of ‘Sabk…
Chandigarh, Dec 31 (IANS) Punjab Minister for Rural Development and Panchayats Tarunpreet Singh Sond on Wednesday led hundreds of labourers in a protest against the Union government’s newly enacted Viksit Bharat — Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 (VB-G RAM G), which replaced the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).Addressing the gathering in Khanna town, Sond termed the VB-GRAM Act a “black, draconian and anti-poor law” that will de…
Chandigarh, Dec 30 (IANS) The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution moved by Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond, decrying the initiative by the government of India (GoI) for replacing of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the new law, Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin). The new scheme takes away the right to guaranteed wages and employment from poor labourers, women and lakh…