Leading economists, policymakers, lawyers, and civil society members warn VB-G RAM G Bill threatens rural jobs, infrastructure, and the legal right to work ...

60-day no-work period: State governments will announce a 60-day period in advance during which no work will be taken up. This ...

Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi has snubbed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural) ...

Rahul Gandhi said it was evident what MGNREGA meant to the people, especially during the trying times amid the COVID outbreak ...

A day after Parliament passed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill—replacing the 20-year-old MGNREGA introduced during the UPA era—the Congress on ...

Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of India, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, presented the bill in the upper house and it was ...

Opposition members sat on dharna outside parliament after staging a walkout in the Rajya Sabha where the demand for the bill ...

The new funding norm creates a ‘catastrophic Catch-22: states bear legal liability for providing employment, while central ...

While speaking in the Lok Sabha against the bill, Tharoor objected to the “ill-advised decision” to drop Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the MGNREGA scheme ...

Also, the AAP MP Malvinder Singh Kang opposed the Centre’s proposed ‘VB-G RAM G’ Bill during the Winter Session of Parliament ...

The Congress leader added that women, Dalits and tribals will get hit the most due to “rationing of the jobs programme”.

Bill -- VB-G RAM G -- which will replace the MGNREGA Act, has been cleared by the Parliament after the new legislation was ...