The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government will replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) with Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) UK – G RAM G BILL, 2025.
A bill to scrap MGNREGA, the country’s flagship jobs scheme, and introduce a new rural employment law – the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) – has been circulated among Lok Sabha members by the government, PTI news agency quoted unnamed sources as saying.
According to a copy of the bill, it seeks to introduce the Viksit Bharat-Garantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025 in Parliament and repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
It states that the Act aims to create “a framework for rural development in line with the national vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 by providing a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage labor in every financial year to every rural household whose adult members voluntarily engage in unskilled manual labour; to promote empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation of a prosperous countryside and rural saturation”.
The bill has been circulated among Lok Sabha members and is likely to be introduced in the House. The winter session of Parliament, which began on December 1, will end on December 19.
The new programme, which will provide 125 days of unskilled manual labour, “will focus on empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation through public works, which will be merged into the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Package, with a thematic focus on water security through water-related works, basic rural infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure and special mitigation works”.
