What happened: Supreme Court remarks on MGNREGA while hearing delayed-wage and transition issues
The Supreme Court praised the scrapped Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as beneficial and effective.
The Court made these remarks while hearing a petition that challenged delayed payments of wages and issues connected to the transition to the successor rural employment programme under the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAM G Act).
Background and claims in the petition: employment outcomes, guaranteed work-days, and funding design
Petitioners included activist Aruna Roy.
Petitioners raised these claims about the successor programme under the VB-GRAM G Act:
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