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The 18th All India Conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) passed a solution demanding the repeal of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, termed the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, and urged the restoration and strengthening of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), with enhanced enactment days and wages, alongside backing ensured by the Centre.
Addressing the media present connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) to denote the resolutions and deliberations connected the 2nd time of the conference, CITU wide caput Tapan Sen said the VB-G RAM G Act was a retrograde enactment of the Centre, which had resulted successful the repeal of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, and “totally mutilated and annihilated the ineligible close of agrarian households to employment warrant and unemployment allowance”, leaving it to the mercy and discretion of governments.
“It has overturned the statutory close and entitlement into a discretionary scheme, on with imposing fiscal and administrative load connected the State governments, undermining the national operation of the Constitution,” Mr. Sen said.
By imposing the load of 40% of the outgo connected State governments, the strategy would beryllium watered down arsenic determination mightiness not beryllium capable gross with the State governments to wage their share, helium said. MGNREGA had been functioning smoothly since 2005, and the caller Act was against the national operation of the country, helium said.
Moreover, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led authorities astatine the Centre had brought astir Labour Codes that were “nothing but an onslaught connected the rights of workers”, Mr. Sen said.
The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant had not been privatised lone due to the fact that of agitations by workers implicit the past 5 years, helium said. “The Centre has brought Labour Codes to suppress workers, and the Centre does not privation immoderate labour unions to exist. The moving people should proceed their agitation against the policies of the government,” Mr. Sen said.
CITU passed different resolutiion condemning the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, 2025, which was rushed done Parliament, repealing the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010.
“The Act is simply a dangerous, anti-people and anti-sovereignty authorities that opens India’s astir hazardous and strategical vigor assemblage to backstage and overseas firm interests. It dilutes safety, accountability, antiauthoritarian oversight and workers’ rights. This league demands the contiguous repeal of the Act successful its entirety,” the CITU solution said.
