The Hindu

In Focus podcast | VB-GRAMG Bill: Will it destroy the world’s most successful workfare program?

The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAMG) Bill, 2025 has received the President’s assent. This Bill replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ...
Shillong Times

VB-G RAM G: State BJP welcomes new 90:10 funding pattern

SHILLONG, Dec 22: Meghalaya BJP on Thursday welcomed the 90:10 funding pattern for the implementation of the 125-day wage employment scheme under e Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika ...
Mint

VB-G RAM G replaces MGNREGA: Mahatma Gandhi's name dropped, new funding model – What changes? 4 key differences

President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday gave her assent to the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAM G) Bill, which replaces the UPA-era Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...
moneycontrol.com

OPINION | Why VB- G RAM G represents a superior version of India’s workfare program

VB-G RAM G promises not just employment but sustainable livelihoods, durable infrastructure and integration with national development. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ...
ndtvprofit

VB–G RAM G Bill To Replace MGNREGA: All You Need To Know About Funding Pattern And Other Proposed Changes

The Union government is preparing to introduce a new rural employment law in the Parliament, proposing to repeal the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
Business Standard

Centre proposes renaming MGNREGA to VB-G RaM G, to change funding pattern

The Union government has decided to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the flagship social-welfare scheme, 20 years after it was enacted, providing for a ...
Mint

Rural jobs guarantee 2.0: More days, states to share the burden

The Centre is planning to replace the two-decade-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) with a revamped legislation that promises more days of work, but asks states ...
VentureBeat

Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Enterprises that want tokenizer-free multilingual models are increasingly turning to byte-level language models to reduce brittleness in noisy or low-resource text. To tap into that niche — and make ...
on3

Kentucky VB sweeps Creighton, advances to program's second Final Four

Kentucky volleyball has advanced to the program’s second-ever Final Four. On Saturday night in Memorial Coliseum, the 1-seeded Wildcats won the Lexington Regional with a clean sweep of the 3-seeded ...
IEEE

Boosting Redundancy-Based Automated Program Repair by Fine-Grained Pattern Mining

Redundancy-based automated program repair (APR), which generates patches by referencing existing source code, has gained much attention since they are effective in repairing real-world bugs with good ...
Fierce Healthcare

The quiet collapse of America's reproductive health safety net

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many ...