For rural households, the MGNREGA Job Card is an important record of employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The good news is that many details linked to the card ...

From being the lifeline of the country’s rural economy whenever it went into distress and subject of political claims and ...

The Centre has introduced the Viksit Bharat-GRAM Bill in Parliament to replace the existing MGNREGA framework with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen). The move has ...

In 2004, India made a distinctive choice: an unconditional public employment guarantee for rural citizens. Most countries, up to that point, had relied on conditional income support or unemployment ...

The Centre has notified the VB–G RAM G Act, 2025, replacing MGNREGA from July 1, 2026 with a 125-day rural employment guarantee and a new funding structure. The law introduces tech-driven monitoring, ...

The new law concentrates decision-making power with the Centre and shifts financial responsibility to states The new Bill dilutes MGNREGA’s rights-based framework, weakening protections for women, ...

Millions of workers enrolled under the rural job scheme are staring at an uncertain future, with the government failing to revise the wage rate for 2026-27 under the MGNREGA or offer clarity on when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patna: The rural development ministry of Bihar government has cancelled 39.36 lakh MGNREGA job cards of inactive labourers in the state. The affected labourers had not worked a single day in the last ...

THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition, has ...