The Opposition on Monday (December 15, 2025) raised several questions about the new rural employment law that seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, ranging from the rationale behind removing the name of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ to increasing the financial burden on States and ‘dismantling’ the rights-based architecture of the present law.
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The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, was listed in the supplementary list of business of the Lok Sabha on Monday (December 15, 2025).
Congress MP Saptagiri Ulaka, who chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, said that the government had always intended to end the programme, citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that MGNREGA was a monument to the Congress-led UPA’s failure and was a scheme for digging pits.
27 lakh MGNREGA workers deleted between October 10 and November 14
