India's jobs guarantee scheme: A global model under threat?

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), providing paid work to rural households, faces changes under a new law, rebranded as G RAM G. The law increases guaranteed workdays from 100 to 125 per household, but shifts funding responsibilities to states, raising concerns about a dilution of the scheme's impact. Despite challenges, the scheme has significantly improved rural livelihoods, raising earnings and reducing poverty, but critics argue it does not address long-term structural issues in India's economy.