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NEW DELHI: The Union Budget 2026 announced the motorboat of a caller inaugural successful the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi days aft it came nether flak for its determination to alteration the sanction of MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act) to VB-G RAM G (Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural) Bill).The Union Budget 2026 announced the motorboat of the Mahatma Gandhi Gram Swaraj Initiative to fortify khadi, handloom and handicrafts done planetary marketplace linkage, branding, training, skilling and prime improvements.Finance curate Nirmala Sitharaman besides announced a dedicated inaugural for sports goods manufacturing and innovation successful instrumentality plan and worldly sciences for precocious quality, affordable sports goods.
These measures purpose to boost agrarian industries, heighten planetary marketplace linkage, and enactment younker and artisans, portion the broader program to revive 200 bequest concern clusters underscores the standard of intended economical revitalisation.The Centre precocious enacted the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025 replacing the Congress-era MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. The determination drew crisp disapproval from the absorption parties which alleged that the BJP-led NDA authorities was allergic to the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi. The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025 represented a broad statutory overhaul of MGNREGA, aligning agrarian employment with the semipermanent imaginativeness of Viksit Bharat 2047, portion strengthening accountability, infrastructure outcomes and income security.
