5 months ago
1
The AAP authorities connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) brought a solution against the VB-G RAM G Act successful the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and accused the BJP-led Centre of trying to decorativeness the MGNREGA.
Also Read | Centre has practically ended MGNREGA with VB-G RAM G Bill: Prashant Bhushan
Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond tabled the solution successful the House for treatment during the one-day league of the Assembly.
Mr. Sond said that the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), oregon VB-G RAM G, Act volition severely interaction below-poverty-line families, Scheduled Caste communities, and agrarian labourers who beryllium connected the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for survival.
Mr. Sond alleged that the Centre wanted to "finish" the MGNREGA, and demanded its restoration.
Editorial | Change for the worse: On MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G
According to the resolution, the State Assembly deprecated the VB-G RAM G Act, which it said takes distant the close to guaranteed wages/employment from mediocre labourers, women, and lakhs of occupation card-holding families of the state.
It recommended that the authorities authorities instrumentality up the substance with the Centre to support the demand-based, rights-based and afloat centrally sponsored operation of MGNREGA.
It besides sought the Centre reconsider those provisions of the VB-G RAM G Act which enforce "undue fiscal burden" connected the states and dilute the close to employment of agrarian labourers.
Participating successful the treatment connected the resolution, AAP MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal called the VB-G RAM G Act "anti-poor" and demanded its withdrawal.
