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.