Government likely to bring Bill to repeal MGNREGA, bring new rural employment law

A measure to repeal the MGNREGA and bring a caller instrumentality for agrarian employment — Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) — has been circulated by the authorities among the Lok Sabha members, a root said.

According to a transcript of the bill, it seeks to present the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, successful Parliament and repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005.

It says the measure is aimed astatine establishing a "rural improvement model aligned with the nationalist imaginativeness of Viksit Bharat 2047, by providing a statutory warrant of 1 100 and twenty-five days of wage employment successful each fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members unpaid to undertake unskilled manual work; to beforehand empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation for a prosperous and resilient agrarian Bharat".

The measure has been circulated among the members of the Lok Sabha, and is apt to beryllium introduced successful the House.

The Winter Session of Parliament, which started connected December 1, volition reason connected December 19.