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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) said her authorities would rename its agrarian occupation warrant programme aft Mahatma Gandhi, slamming the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre for seeking to replace the 20-year-old MGNREGA with the VB-G RAM G scheme.
Speaking astatine a concern and manufacture conclave successful Kolkata, CM Banerjee said if immoderate governmental parties “failed to amusement respect to our nationalist icons, we volition bash it”, without straight naming the BJP.
Her announcement came arsenic the Lok Sabha passed the Viksit Bharat — Guarantee For Rozgar And Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill that seeks to regenerate the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA).
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“I consciousness ashamed that they person decided to region Mahatma Gandhi's sanction from the NREGA programme, due to the fact that I excessively beryllium to this country. We are present forgetting adjacent the Father of the Nation,” CM Banerjee said astatine the Dhana Dhanya auditorium, addressing the concern meet.
“We volition present rename the Karmashree strategy of our authorities aft Mahatma Gandhi,” she added.
Under the ‘Karmashree’ scheme, the authorities claims to supply up to 75 days of enactment to beneficiaries, contempt what Banerjee described arsenic the Centre blocking funds nether the MGNREGS.
The Chief Minister said the authorities aims to summation the fig of workdays nether ‘Karmashree’ to 100 successful the future.
“We person already created tons of workdays nether ‘Karmashree’, which we are moving with our ain resources. Even if cardinal funds are stopped, we volition guarantee radical get work. We are not beggars,” she said.
