Renaming MGNREGA will cost lot of government resources: Priyanka Gandhi

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) responded to the reports of renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) arsenic the Pujya Bapu Rural Employment Scheme, saying that a batch of authorities resources are spent connected the renaming process, citing it arsenic "unnecessary."

Speaking to reporters, the Congress MP said she doesn't recognize the rationale down the determination to rename the MGNREGA scheme, which she says brings unnecessary costs. "I can't recognize what mentality is down this. First, this is Mahatma Gandhi's name, and erstwhile it is changed, the government's resources are spent connected it again. From offices to stationery, everything has to beryllium renamed, truthful this is simply a big, costly process. So what's the payment of doing this unnecessarily? I can't understand," she said.

Earlier today, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi besides criticised the Centre implicit reports of a apt sanction alteration to the MGNREGA scheme, calling it a "distraction" to mislead the nationalist and disrespect the sanction of the Gandhi family.

Ms. Chaturvedi said, "Because of the frustration, specified decisions are being made. This is different mode to distract attention. The treatment of 150 years of Vande Mataram has helped the nationalist recognize which mentation of past is the WhatsApp mentation and which is the existent one. That is wherefore those who judge successful WhatsApp volition beryllium annoyed with the Gandhi family. Those who cognize the existent past volition ever respect the Gandhi household for their contributions."

MGNREGA is an employment strategy nether the Ministry of Rural Development that provides astatine slightest 100 days of guaranteed wage employment successful a fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members volunteer for unskilled work. Any Indian national aged 18 oregon supra and residing successful a agrarian country tin use to this scheme.

The applicant receives guaranteed employment wrong 15 days of the day of application. The wage is deposited straight into the Bank Account / Post Office Account of the applicant. Wages are paid wrong a week oregon 15 days astatine most. Men and Women are paid equally. MGNREGA covers the full country with the objection of districts that person a 100 percent municipality population.