The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has been a flagship programme ever since it was launched in 2005. It guaranteed 100 days of employment as a legal right and held the Indian state accountable if it failed do so. As with different programmes, this programme was riddled with challenges. Generating over 4,585…
Activists, farmers, workers’ groups and researchers have called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed law to replace India’s flagship rural jobs programme, warning it would weaken the legal right to work and centralise power with the Union government. At a press conference in Delhi on December 17, 2025, activists and researchers criticised the Viksit…
A proposed wage employment programme that the government plans to introduce in Parliament would end the demand-driven nature of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which it seeks to replace, researchers and labour rights activists have warned. The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, expected to be tabled…