The government has highlighted provisions such as an increase in guaranteed wage employment from 100 days to 125 days and a 60-day pause during peak sowing and harvesting seasons to avoid competing ...

The author argues that VB-G-RAM-G strengthens, not scraps, MGNREGA by expanding job guarantees, curbing leakages, creating ...

Companies such as L&T, Tata Power, Reliance Industries, Adani Group, JSW Group and Vedanta Group stand to gain as the SHANTI Bill allows private nuclear plants while keeping fuel and liability under ...

Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB- G RAM G, Bill was passed by Parliament on December 18. It will replace the MGNREGA Act, which provided a guaranteed wage employment to rural ...

Civil society groups say the VB-G RAM G Bill could weaken casual labour's bargaining power, as MGNREGA served as a safety net ...

MGNREGA empowered citizens to engage the state on equal terms. VB-GRAMG recasts them as labharthis, who must prove ...

Opposition parties are fixated on the argument that the government has deliberately removed MK Gandhi’s name from the Act.

VB-G RAM G’s funding and administrative structure should strengthen and expand rural jobs, not weaken the scheme ...

Far from revamping India’s employment guarantee, the Bill sinks it by demotivating the states and disempowering the workers ...

Bill promises 125 workdays but replaces the legal right to employment with budget-based allocations, risking funding cuts of ...

Varanasi: A modern museum based on the life of Sant Shiromani Ravidas is taking shape in Kashi. The Uttar Pradesh govt is ...

Vadodara: While the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) cleared 30 road projects in the city and issued work orders for them ...