Shashi SinghRanchi, Jan. 6 -- The political slugfest over rural employment intensified in Jharkhand as the BJP and the Congress exchanged sharp charges over the Centre's proposed G RAM G scheme, positioned as a revamped alternative to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
Leader of Opposition and state BJP president Babulal Marandi accused the Congress of deliberately creating confusion around the initiative. He said the scheme, formally described as Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural), reflects Mahatma Gandhi's vision of Ram Rajya through village-centric and corruption-free development.
Marandi alleged that MGNREGA had, over the years, become riddled with corruption and we...