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Parliament Session: Lok Sabha introduces VB-G RAM-G Bill 2025
Updated : 3 months ago IST
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed the introduction of the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, also referred to as the VB-G RAM-G Bill, which aims to replace the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
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"Under pretext of renaming, scheme may be scrapped": Priyanka Gandhi on ch
Updated : 3 months ago IST
"The truth is that in the garb of changing the name of the scheme, they (Central govt) want to scrap this scheme. Why do they want to change the name of this scheme? Mahatma Gandhi is the father of the nation," Gandhi added.
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"This Mogambo has nothing on his record except changing names": BK Haripra
Updated : 3 months ago IST
While speaking to reporters, Hariprasad said, "The man who has completely failed in providing employment for the rural poor, it is only MNREGA that is providing employment for the rural poor. Apart from changing names, this Mogambo has nothing on his record that he has done anything for t
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Priyanka Gandhi to oppose Viksit Bharat G RAM G Bill to rename MNEREGA at
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday will intervene and oppose the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025, replacing the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Bill (MGNREGA) at 12 noon today in Lok Sabh
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Saugata Roy accuses Finance Minister of 'misleading house' over Bengal's d
Updated : 3 months ago IST
"The Finance Minister (Nirmala Sitharaman) avoided speaking on West Bengal as she knew that she would be challenged," Roy told reporters. "We walked out in protest, and the Congress and the Samajwadi Party also did the same. The Union Finance Minister is repeatedly misleading the House on
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"Insult to Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindra Nath Tagore and Bengal": TMC's Sagarik
Updated : 3 months ago IST
TMC MP Sagarika Ghose on Monday said that Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) is an "insult" to Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindra Nath Tagore and West Bengal.
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"Unfortunate, Ram Rajya and Gram Swaraj never competing forces": Shashi Th
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday called the Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) "unfortunate", saying that the concept of Gram Swaraj and the ideal of Ram Rajya were never competing forces.
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"Will strongly oppose in parliament and on streets": Mallikarjun Kharge sl
Updated : 3 months ago IST
In a post on X, Kharge alleged that this move was part of a larger attempt to weaken and ultimately dismantle the flagship rural employment scheme.
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"Claiming others' work as its own": Akhilesh Yadav on MGNREGA scheme name
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday criticised Bharatiya Janata Party over introducing a bill to replace Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA), alleging that the central government's move is motivated to "claim other's work as its own."
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"Modern, infrastructure-focused, digitally governed system": Viksit Bharat
Updated : 3 months ago IST
The new Bill guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household, up from the existing 100 days, for adult members willing to undertake unskilled manual work. It seeks to simultaneously provide income security and create durable, productivity-enhancing rural assets through a nation
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Opposition slams reported plan to rename MGNREGA, says Centre 'erasing his
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Reacting to the reports, Congress MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh said the move reflected a larger pattern. "The Indian government is changing the entire history," he remarked, expressing concern over what he described as a systematic attempt to alter established symbols and narratives.
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"Modi govt an expert at renaming schemes and laws...": Congress MP Jairam
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday tore into the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), questioning their concerns with the name 'Mahatma Gandhi' over the reports of renaming of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as the "Pujya Bapu Rural Employment Scheme."
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