Latest Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission News & Updates

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday gave a detailed lowdown on the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G), explaining how the new legislation will embolden India’s rural employment framework and also address the ‘shortcomings’ of the previous scheme, MGNREGA, which it will replace.He also addressed the opposition’s concerns over claims of G RAM G altering the basic character of the rural employment gua…

Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress, on Saturday, issued a notification renaming the West Bengal government’s own job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi as a mark of protest against the Union government’s recent decision to replace the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) scheme with the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G RAM G scheme. As per the notification issued by the State Secretariat, Naban…