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Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) said the precocious passed Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act addresses the labour shortage faced during highest workplace seasons.
The VB-G RAM G Act, which replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), was passed successful Parliament past week.
Addressing virtually connected the juncture of Farmer’s Day, Mr. Chouhan said the instrumentality strikes a equilibrium betwixt the payment of farmers and labourers, according to an authoritative statement.
"VB-G RAM G is highly utile successful the broader involvement of the country, arsenic it empowers and makes the farming assemblage self-reliant. While the VB-G RAM G afloat takes attraction of the upliftment of labourers, it besides focuses connected farmers, ensuring capable labourers are disposable for farming," helium said.
The Minister pointed retired that farmers often look trouble successful uncovering labourers during sowing and harvesting seasons.
"Now with this caller law, this occupation volition beryllium resolved, and the labourers volition beryllium disposable during the farming season. This is an important diagnostic of the caller instrumentality that volition support farmers happy," helium said.
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Under the caller scheme, labourers volition get enactment for 125 days a twelvemonth alternatively of 100 days nether MGNREGA, but for 2 months of highest farming play erstwhile they are expected to beryllium disposable for cultivation work.
Mr. Chouhan said the accusation astir this caller improvement indispensable beryllium disseminated among farmers crossed the state done Krishi Vigyan Kendras.
The Minister said the government's nonsubjective is to summation the income of some farmers and labourers, and this volition beryllium achieved done the caller law.
Minister of State for Agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary, Agriculture Secretary Devesh Chaturvedi and Indian Council of Agricultural Research Director General M.L. Jat were among different elder officials contiguous astatine the event.
