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Defending the VB-G RAM G scheme, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan connected Saturday said the Centre had taken a pledge that nary injustice would beryllium allowed against farmers.
Speaking astatine the Chaudhary Charan Singh Awards 2025 successful Delhi, Mr. Chauhan said that drafting inspiration from the erstwhile Prime Minister and foremost person of farmers, the authorities has accrued the duration of employment nether the VB-G RAM G strategy from 100 to 125 days, which volition alteration agrarian landscapes. “We besides decided to intermission the strategy during the farming play aft listening to farmers, making it beneficial for some labourers and farmers,” helium added.
Recalling Singh’s absorption to Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr. Chauhan said, “At a clip erstwhile fewer dared to talk against Pandit Nehru, Chaudhary Saheb powerfully opposed the overseas conception of cooperative farming. Inspired by Gandhian thought, helium broke brackish connected the banks of the Hindon River, abolished the zamindari strategy to marque farmers landowners, ne'er bowed to unit portion protecting farmers’ interests, and empowered them by creating the station of lekhpal.”
Speaking astatine the 2nd variation of the awards organised by the Kisan Trust, Jayant Chaudhary, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Minister of State for Education, besides highlighted the efforts of the contiguous authorities successful the agriculture sector. Referring to the VB-G RAM G Bill, helium said, “Chaudhary Saheb had initiated the ‘food for work’ scheme, which aboriginal evolved into MGNREGA, and today, successful enactment with farmers’ aspirations, it stands earlier america arsenic VB-G RAM G.”
