In Uttarakhand, the party has announced a statewide agitation against what it describes as the replacement of MNREGA with the Viksit Bharat G Ram G RuralAct ... Earlier, on Friday, the Congress launched the ‘MNREGA Bachao Sangram’ in Jammu.
The state leadership argues that the new legislation is harmful to the country's rural workforce and is demanding a full reinstatement of the original employment guarantee scheme ....
The Congress on Saturday announced a nationwide agitation against the G-RAMG Act from January 8, alleging that it "silently kills" the MNREGA and undermines the legal right to work guaranteed to rural... .
Also, the harvesting season will be the time when the scheme will not be operational.'The Congress-led govt decentralised MNREGA, giving panchayats the implementation authority, but the Modi govt is taking that away.