Early Times Report
UTTARAKHAND, Jan 6: Chief Minister Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami, while talking to the media at the Media Centre, Secretariat, on Tuesday, described the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission Rural (VB-G RAM G Act) as historic and said that this new act is not just a change of name for MGNREGA, but a structural restructuring of rural employment policy, through which rural areas and units will be strengthened. He described it as important for making the village developed. He said that this act will prove important in creating a strong foundation for Viksit Bharat through protection to farmers, employment to laborers, respect to women, development of villages and developed villages.
The Chief Minister said that VB-G RAM G, along with providing development-based guarantees, will now provide rural families the right to employment for 125 days instead of 100, which will be 25% more than before. Under this, a system has been created to mandatorily provide unemployment allowance if work is not available within 15 days; along with this, the responsibility of the official has also been fixed. He informed that the payment made under this system will be weekly and a provision for compensation has been made in case of delay.
The Chief Minister said that technology-based transparency has been maintained in the works carried out under VB-G RAM G. Provisions have been made for the use of various technologies such as biometric attendance, geo-tagging and GIS mapping, mobile app and public dashboard, AI-based fraud detection and mandatory social audit twice a year. The use of all these technologies makes this scheme a corruption-free employment guarantee scheme.
The Chief Minister said that the protection of farmer interests has been clearly ensured in VB-G RAM G. During the sowing and harvesting seasons of farming, the work of the scheme can be legally stopped for a maximum of 60 days. Due to this, farmers will not face a shortage of labourers and the cost of farming will also not increase, while the rural economy will remain balanced. |
