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Congress person Priyanka Gandhi Vadra connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) attacked the authorities implicit its Bill to regenerate MGNREGA, saying that it stands to "weaken" the archetypal Act's guaranteed 100 days of employment to the poorest of the poor.
The Congress wide caput besides said she does not recognize the Modi authorities has "obsession" with renaming schemes.
"Firstly, the process of renaming schemes costs a batch of wealth to the country, truthful I don't recognize wherefore they are doing it," Priyanka Gandhi told reporters successful the Parliament House complex. Second, MGNREGA guaranteed 100 days of employment to the poorest of the poor, but the caller Bill volition weaken this close nether MGNREGA,” she said.
“The authorities has added 2 oregon 3 things to the Bill that superficially suggest an summation successful the fig of moving days. But has the wage complaint been increased?" she asked.
"For truthful galore years, you (government) person been reducing funds for MGNREGA, wherever 1 goes, labourers volition accidental wealth has not come," Priyanka Gandhi said.
“Earlier, the gram panchayat utilized to determine the enactment to beryllium done nether the scheme, but this Bill gives the Centre that close and wherever funds are to beryllium allocated,” she said.
"So the close of the gram panchayat to determine wherever to allocate funds and wherever to get the enactment done is being snatched away. So from each perspectives we consciousness this measure is wrong," Priyanka Gandhi said.
The Congress has powerfully objected to the Bill that seeks to regenerate MGNREGA. It said erasing Mahatma Gandhi's sanction shows however "hollow and hypocritical" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gestures of paying homage to the Father of the Nation are.
The Opposition enactment has alleged that the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, "attacks the soul" of rights-based warrant by replacing it with a strategy "stacked against" the States and the workers and defies the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. The Bill is acceptable to beryllium introduced successful the Lok Sabha during the ongoing Winter league of Parliament.
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According to a transcript of the Bill, it volition supply a statutory warrant of 125 days of wage employment successful each fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members unpaid to undertake unskilled manual work.
Within six months from the day of commencement of the VB-G RAM G Act, States volition person to marque a strategy accordant with the provisions of the caller law.
The fiscal liability would beryllium shared betwixt the Centre and the State Governments. It would beryllium 90:10 for the Northeastern States and Himalayan States, and 60:40 for each different States and Union territories with legislature. For the UTs without a legislature, the full outgo would beryllium borne by the Centre. The MGNREGS is simply a 100% centrally sponsored scheme.
"The scheme, which volition present beryllium known arsenic the Viksit Bharat Guarantee For Rozgar And Ajeevika Mission (Grameen), attacks the psyche of a rights-based warrant and replaces it with a conditional, Centrally controlled strategy stacked against the States and workers," the enactment said.
