BENGALURU: Delayed wage payments, technological glitches and declining worker participation are threatening the functioning ...

MGNREGA altered the citizen-state relationship in rural India. It gave workers leverage—against landlords, contractors, and local officials. Women, in particular, used the programme to negotiate wages ...

The replacement of MGNREGA with the G-RAM-G framework has triggered concern among states and critics, who argue the changes go far beyond renaming, diluting decentralisation and recasting ...

Parliament Erupts As President Mentions VB-G RAM G Act, Opposition Slams Move To Replace MGNREGA In the strategy discussions, attended by Rahul Gandhi, DMK’s TR Baalu, RSP’s NK Premachandran, Shiv ...

BENGALURU: Delayed wage payments, technological glitches and declining worker participation are threatening the functioning of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), ...

The repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme amounts to an “assault on Gandhian principles of local governance and Ambedkar’s vision of empowering people with rights”, a ...

The flagship rural employment scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has significantly reshaped the ...

The Act gives the Centre sweeping powers while shifting financial and administrative burdens onto states. Drèze says MGNREGA’s deeper achievement was not just income support but empowerment—especially ...

End Of MGNREGA? What VB–G Ram G Means For Rural Workers, Farmers And Viksit Bharat Plan “Going by the entire provisions of VB-G-Ram-G, we can conclude that all the rights and capacity will be fixed by ...

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on Monday examined various aspects of the UPA-era rural job guarantee law MGNREGA, which has now been replaced by the Narendra Modi government's VB-G RAM G Act, and ...

The open letter said a normative design, as in the VB-G RAM G, erodes such spaces from where democracy is born from the ground up and places the burden of proof on the poor to come up with an ...

The Congress on Saturday announced a nationwide 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram' from January 10 to February 25 to demand the withdrawal of the VB G-RAM-G Act and the restoration of MGNREGA as a rights-based ...