What happened
The Ministry of Rural Development is replacing the MGNREGS with the new 'Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission' (VB G-RAM) Act. The move comes after an Economic Survey revealed the shocking 'failure' that people were using machines to do the labor-intensive work. Instead of just banning the JCBs, the government is launching a statutory overhaul to ensure that 'tangible infrastructure' is built, presumably by hand-delivering bricks one by one until the 2047 vision is achieved.