Letters to The Editor — December 18, 2025

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Contentious move

The determination by the Centre to alteration the sanction of the agrarian employment scheme, MGNREGA, to VB-G RAM G is jarring. Where is the request to alteration the sanction of the scheme, named aft the top icon of our state movement? Increasing the fig of antheral days, from 100 to 125, is simply a smokescreen. Increasing the fiscal load of States is the archetypal measurement that would pb to the breakdown of the scheme. The Centre tin initiate caller payment schemes.

S.V. Venkatakrishnan,

Coimbatore

While the objectives of VB-G RAM G dependable good, the mechanisms chosen to execute them (capped funding, accrued State burden, cardinal control) volition practically dilute the ineligible warrant and marque the strategy little accessible to the agrarian poor. It is simply a information that India has witnessed a gradual emergence successful rural-to-urban migration owed to a deficiency of opportunities successful villages.

Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,

Hyderabad

Published - December 18, 2025 12:24 americium IST

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