According to the World Bank, only 35% of Indian women participate in the workforce, which can be increased to 70% to achieve ...

On November 20, 2019, I wrote for The Indian Express on “A Greater Ease of Living.” I had argued that discussions of rural ...

Explore the government's controversial replacement of MGNREGA with the VB-G RAM G Bill and its implications for rural ...

India has presented legislation to expand a 20-year-old rural employment scheme by boosting the number of guaranteed workdays ...

Calls for committed governance, prioritising road connectivity to tribal villages and effective implementation of Adavi ...

The government is set to repeal the MGNREGA, enacted in 2005, and introduce the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and ...

MNREGA is India’s landmark rural job guarantee scheme that promises up to 100 days of paid work each year. From its origins ...

With a new Modi government rural job guarantee set to replace NREGA, a look at what the UPA’s social security initiative had ...

Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB- G RAM G, Bill was passed by Parliament on December 18. It will replace the MGNREGA Act, which provided a guaranteed wage employment to rural ...

The new Act increases the statutory guarantee of employment from 100 to 125 days per rural household for adults willing to ...

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced the bill to create a modern statutory framework in line with the ...

The Lok Sabha passed the VB-G RAM G Bill to replace MGNREGA amid Opposition protests, with the government promising 125 days ...