There are political overtones to the Narendra Modi government’s move to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and introduce the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Grameen (VB-G RAM G) Bill to replace it. The proposed law aims at providing 125 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work. This is more than the 100 days under the previous UPA dispensation-enacted MGNREGA. VB-G RAM G further imposes curbs on taking up works during the peak agricultural sowing and harvesting season........

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