{"id":57797,"date":"2025-12-27T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=57797"},"modified":"2025-12-27T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T15:38:07","slug":"centre-new-vb-g-ram-g-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/centre-new-vb-g-ram-g-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre\u2019s New VB-G RAM G Scheme a Direct Attack on MGNREGA Labourers, Federal Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab News:<\/span> Aam Aadmi Party Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond on Tuesday strongly criticised the Union Government\u2019s \u201cViksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission &#8211; Gramin (VB-G RAM G)\u201d, calling it another \u201cblack law\u201d that directly attacks the livelihood of millions of MGNREGA labourers and shifts the financial burden onto states.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, Sond said the new scheme will severely impact below-poverty-line families, Scheduled Caste communities, and rural labourers who depend on MGNREGA for survival. He said the Centre is trying to \u201chit two targets with one stone\u201d &#8211; first by weakening guaranteed employment and second by burdening states financially, thereby attacking India\u2019s federal structure.<\/p>\n<p>The minister pointed out that while the Centre claims the new scheme will provide 125 days of work compared to 100 days under MGNREGA, official data shows that the BJP-led government managed to provide only an average of 45 days of work last year. \u201cMaking promises without delivery has become the BJP\u2019s habit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sond explained that earlier, wages for unskilled labour were fully funded by the Centre, and material costs were shared in a 75:25 ratio. Under the new scheme, this has been changed to 60:40, placing an additional annual burden of around \u20b9600 crore on Punjab alone.<\/p>\n<p>He further warned that the new scheme has no guarantee of work during peak agricultural seasons, removes unemployment allowance provisions, centralises decision-making on village-level works, limits permissible works, and replaces social audits with AI-driven biometric and geo-tagging systems, raising serious concerns about exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sond highlighted that 70% of MGNREGA workers in Punjab are women, and shortening the scheme to 10 months will directly hurt them.<\/p>\n<p>He announced that the AAP government has called a special Assembly session on the 30th to pass a resolution opposing this move and urged all states to stand united against what he termed a dangerous rollback of workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab News: Aam Aadmi Party Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond on Tuesday strongly criticised the Union Government\u2019s \u201cViksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission &#8211; Gramin (VB-G RAM G)\u201d, calling it another \u201cblack law\u201d that directly attacks the livelihood of millions of MGNREGA labourers and shifts the financial burden onto states. 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