Congress has opposed the newly enacted Viksit Bharat- Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025, which replaces the flagship rural employment scheme.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday launched a special awareness campaign focusing on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the "Viksit Bharat G-Ram Yojana," aimed at educating the public at the grassroots level.
Speaking to mediapersons in Shimla after launching the campaign, BJP Himachal Pradesh president Rajeev Bindal said the party has initiated a statewide drive to educate citizens about the Special Intensive Revision process mandated by the Election Commission, along with public outreach on
Addressing a state-level workshop on the VB-G Ram Ji, she praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. She said the NDA government, led by PM Modi, has launched a visionary, transparent rural development initiative.
"May God grant wisdom to the current government so it can serve the people effectively. I also urge the government not to sacrifce state because of internal conflicts," he stated.
"Sriramulu and Janardhana Reddy are coming on the 17th. There is a state-level struggle. The party has decided to take up all the issues of the state government's failures and corruption and fight across the state. Law and order have deteriorated, so a struggle has been organised in Bella
During his visit to Gujarat, the agriculture minister alleged irregularities in the implementation of the MGNREGA law, noting that under this law, work was done by machines and contractors instead of labour, and claimed that the new VB-G RAM G Act would stop these irregularities.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday slammed the BJP for allegedly killing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, which guaranteed 100 days of unskilled wage work per financial year to rural households, to enhance livelihood securi
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said the government aims to inform every village in Uttar Pradesh about the benefits of the Viksit Bharat G-RAM G act.
Venugopal was addressing a gathering in Thiruvananthapuram, where he pointed out that under the old law, the Centre had to bear 100% of the wage component; however, under the new amendment, the Centre will bear only 60%, with the remaining 40% to be borne by the state.
Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Tuesday criticised the Centre over the replacement of MGNREGA with the VB G-RAM-G scheme and demanded that Mahatma Gandhi's name be restored.