Erratic rainfall, prolonged heat, groundwater depletion, and volatile farm incomes are becoming structural features of rural ...

BJP defends VB-G RAM G Act, calling it necessary reform, countering Sonia Gandhi's claims of MGNREGA's demolition as ...

Punjab is about 2.3% of India’s population, yet in 2024-25, it generated roughly 309 lakh person-days — about 1.1% of the ...

A preview of the critical changes is essential for understanding the concerns. One, the statutory guarantee remains, raising ...

Act (VB-G RAM G), which replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), received the President’s assent on Sunday, 21 December, marking the formal transition to a new ...

Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the “demolition” of the historic Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) will have catastrophic ...

The BJP vs Congress spat over the G RAM G law a rural employment guarantee scheme meant to replace the 20-year-old MGNREGA rumbled on Monday with the former laughing off Sonia Gandhi's remarks as "fli ...

A day after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the VB–G–RAM–G Bill, turning it into a law, the Bharatiya Janata Party launched a sharp attac ...

MGNREGA empowered citizens to engage the state on equal terms. VB-GRAMG recasts them as labharthis, who must prove eligibility to receive the largesse of a benevolent leader.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is speaking in the Lok Sabha where she is highlighting key achievements of the Indian economy under the NDA government.

The signatories argue that the new Act is based on an incomplete and flawed diagnosis of the problems facing MGNREGA and that ...