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The West Bengal Government had issued a notification renaming its ‘Karmashree’ strategy to ‘Mahatma-Shree’ successful effect to the Union Government’s determination to regenerate the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employee Act) with Viksit Bharat-Guarantee For Rozgar And Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had connected December 18, 2025, criticised the Union Government’s determination to regenerate the MGNREGA and said that her authorities would rename the State’s agrarian occupation warrant strategy aft the begetter of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
Speaking astatine a concern conclave successful Kolkata’s Dhana Dhanya auditorium, the Chief Minister had said, “I consciousness ashamed that they person decided to remove Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the MGNREGA programme, due to the fact that I excessively beryllium to this country. Are we present forgetting adjacent the Father of the Nation?”
Karmashree was announced successful the State’s 2024-25 Budget, aiming to warrant 50 days of wage employment annually for agrarian unskilled workers with MGNREGA Job Cards. The cultivation unions of West Bengal, however, claimed that they spot nary implementation of the strategy connected the ground.
Funds to the MGNREGA strategy person been suspended since April 2022 connected relationship of corruption successful the implementation of the strategy by the West Bengal Government. Earlier this year, the Calcutta High Court and aboriginal the Supreme Court directed the Union Government and the West Bengal Government to resume the 100-day enactment strategy successful the State. However, contempt the orders, workers are waiting for the resumption of the scheme.
