Agrarian Issues

AIKS Strongly Protests Failure to Curb Surge in Fertiliser Prices, Demands Measures to Prevent Black Marketing and Hoarding

The Modi Regime’s policy of succumbing to US Imperialism has damaged India’s energy, fuel and fertiliser security. Inadequate Fertiliser stocks will lead to diminished harvest yields, food inflation and escalate rural economic distress.

AIAWU Rejects Central Government Notification for Implementation of VB-G RAM G

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified the implementation date for Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G). The notification is titled ‘Historic Commencement of VB-G RAM G.’ It is indeed historic in the way this act has been forcibly pushed through parliament and it is historic because it puts an end to the only nationwide demand drive scheme of guaranteed employment – the MGNREGA Act.

MGNREGA Workers in Distress: Deepening Crisis in Rural Employment

THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s most significant rights-based rural employment programme, has long served as a lifeline for the rural poor. This law guarantees every rural household 100 days of statutory employment annually. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has effectively dismantled MGNREGA, pushing the lives of rural workers into a vortex of uncertainty.

Defending the Indefensible: A Response to Shivraj Singh Chouhan on VB–GRAM(G)

FOLLOWING the President’s assent to the VB-GRAM (G) Bill, 2025, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan published an opinion piece in The Hindu on December 24, claiming that the new law addresses the “structural gaps” in MGNREGA and that the widespread genuine concerns raised by workers, activists, economists, and academics, both in India and globally, are merely the result of a “misreading” of the Act.

Call for United Action against VB-G RAM G, for a strengthened MGNREGA

A round table meeting of agricultural and rural workers, NREGA workers, leaders of organisations of the rural poor, academics, legal defenders, leaders of the National Platform for Rights of the Disabled and right to work activists, concluded successfully at HKS Surjeet Bhawan today. The meeting resolved to form a broader national level joint platform of various agricultural and rural workers unions and organisations affiliated with the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.

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