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According to a report in Times of India (TOI), the government will allocate ₹1.51 lakh crore for advanced planning.
The Union Cabinet had approved the proposal to change the name on December 12.
MGNERGA to PBGRY. Approval was also given to increase the number of working days under the scheme from the existing 100 days to 125 days.
MNREGA or NREGA was implemented in 2005 as a flagship scheme of the government to provide guaranteed job security to rural households for a specified number of days in a year.
New bill to repeal MNREGA
The government is also expected to bring a new bill to repeal the current MNREGA of 2005.
According to news agency PTI, a bill titled Vikas Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural) has been circulated among Lok Sabha members.
The bill aims to repeal the 2005 MGNREGA and establish a “rural development framework” in line with the national vision of Develop India 2047.
The bill will promise to provide a “statutory guarantee of one hundred and twenty-five days of wage employment” in each financial year to “every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work”.
According to PTI, it also aims to promote “empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation” for a prosperous and resilient rural India.
The bill is expected to be introduced in the Lower House soon as the winter session of Parliament, which began on December 1, is scheduled to end on December 19.
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(edited by : Priyanka Rathi,