NEW DELHI: The Heart is ready to exchange the two-decade-old nationwide rural employment scheme – MGNREGA – with a brand new legislative framework titled the Viksit Bharat Assure for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Invoice, 2025.The Invoice, aimed toward aligning rural livelihoods with the federal government’s long-term improvement imaginative and prescient, has been listed for introduction within the Lok Sabha, based on the supplementary listing of enterprise issued on Monday.
The proposed laws seeks to dismantle MGNREGA, enacted in 2005, and set up a brand new statutory regime for rural employment.Beneath the proposed legislation, the federal government would assure 125 days of wage employment each monetary yr to every rural family whose grownup members are prepared to undertake unskilled handbook work. That is an improve from the minimal 100 days of wage employment.The invoice positions itself as a part of a broader “rural improvement framework aligned with the nationwide imaginative and prescient of Viksit Bharat 2047”.Within the assertion of objects and causes, rural improvement minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan acknowledged the position performed by MGNREGA during the last 20 years in offering assured wage employment to rural households. Nonetheless, the brand new laws alerts a reimagining of rural employment coverage as the federal government seeks to transition from an entitlement-based security internet to what it describes as a future-oriented improvement mission.The VB-G RAM G Invoice would mark the tip of one in every of India’s most expansive social welfare applications and the start of a brand new chapter in rural employment coverage, probably reshaping how the state helps livelihoods within the countryside.