Preznod for G RAM G bill, Cong vows wider protests

President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday granted assent to the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025, which replaces the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

- Dheer Chawla

With the presidential assent, it now becomes the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, and a notification in this regard was published in the Gazette of India.

Meanwhile, politics over the contentious legislation continued, with the Opposition Congress threatening of a “mass movement” to oppose the law and the Centre accusing the opposition party of spreading misinformation about the legislation.

Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hit out at the opposition’s “conspiracy to mislead the country in the name of MGNREGA”. “Misinformation is being spread, whereas the truth is that Viksit Bharat: G RAM G Scheme is the next step forward for MGNREGA,” he said ina post in Hindi on X.