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Knowledge Nugget | VB-G RAM G comes into effect: What changes under India’s new rural employment scheme?
July 02, 2026 1:07 pm
MGNREGA has been replaced by VB-G RAM G from July 1. What are the key features of India’s new rural employment guarantee scheme? How have rural employment programmes evolved in India? Here’s all you need to know.
Madras High Court rules no right to permanent job via MGNREGA, says schemes must evolve with tech
June 24, 2026 1:44 pm
Dismissing a plea seeking regularisation after working nine years under MGNREGA Scheme, court said that public welfare programmes must evolve with changing economic conditions, technological advancements and ground realities.
What the witch couldn’t eat
June 07, 2026 1:36 am
MGNREGA was not perfect. But for Anju, it was three hours in the morning, cash in hand, forty women laughing in a field, and the knowledge that if the work didn’t come, the state owed her an answer.
Rural Ministry spending hits new low in FY26: Data
February 01, 2026 4:12 am
Before 2017-18, the government accounts had two separate heads — plan and non-plan expenditure. Ministry-wise details are available only for plan expenditure.
Explained: Gandhi’s ideal of Gram Swaraj, and why true devolution of power to villages has yet to happen
February 01, 2026 11:46 am
Across his writings, Gandhi envisioned the all-round development of villages and their self-reliance. Decades after Independence, what hurdles remain in achieving that goal?
MGNREGA achieved significant gains, VB-G RAM G represents decisive shift in rural job policy
January 30, 2026 5:10 am
The Survey, tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha, also highlighted the need for revival of “village commons”, including grazing fields and water bodies.
‘MGNREGA Bachao’: Congress stir starts January 5, Govt says new job law ‘the future’
December 28, 2025 11:33 am
Rahul Gandhi targets PM; Shivraj Chouhan rejects Congress's allegations as “purely political”, saying it had lacked intent and policy to strengthen the rural job scheme during its tenure
Famine relief to job scheme: a forgotten history of public works
December 28, 2025 7:10 pm
When India enacted the MGNREGS in 2005, it was a proxy for genuine unemployment insurance. Job guarantees as a concept are not recent inventions nor ideological indulgences. They have existed from the pre-colonial era as famine works.
CWC meeting today: Why Congress is turning MGNREGA into its next big political fight
December 27, 2025 7:40 am
With its legacy achievement renamed and ‘vote chori’ failing to strike a chord, Congress’s top decision-making body will brainstorm how to make a pivot and corner the BJP government over the rural jobs scheme.
MGNREGA gave Indians dignity. New job guarantee scheme keeps its core – but makes some mistakes
December 22, 2025 6:36 pm
That the government has kept this core element in the new rural job guarantee framework and has enhanced the guaranteed days of employment to 125 from 100 is welcome. But, transferring the burden of the scheme's funding to states and pausing employment guarantee during the peak agriculture season are not good ideas
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