CPI(M)’s Brinda Karat urges Centre to withdraw VB-GRAMG rules, retain MGNREGA
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat has urged the Union government to withdraw new rural employment rules, arguing they are discriminatory and undermine the MGNREGA framework. She claims the new criteria for fund allocation unfairly penalize states based on population and GSDP metrics rather than actual labor demand.
Why it matters
The debate highlights tensions between federal control and state-level implementation of social welfare programs, impacting millions of rural workers.
The “objective parameters” for the fund allocation under VB-G RAM G are neither “objective nor fair”, the new rural employment law relies excessively on technology and lays out no parameters for wage fixation, senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat wrote in a letter to Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday (June 29, 2026).
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