BJP state president N. Ramachander Rao on Sunday said the VB-G RAMG Act epitomizes transparency and accountability in rural employment schemes as it seeks to plug long-standing loopholes that had hampered earlier programs in the country.

Speaking at the VB-G RAM Ji workshop organized by BJP Kisan Morcha at the party’s state office here, he said the Center has introduced the Act by integrating modern technology to remove loopholes and ensure transparency. He said that the country is poised to become the third largest economy in the near future, and in this context, he argued that reforms in the traditional welfare model were inevitable in line with the changing economic realities, making the VB-G RAM G Act a necessity rather than an option. The BJP leader questioned the Congress party’s “sudden attachment” to Mahatma Gandhi’s name and asked why earlier schemes by the Congress were never named after Mahatma Gandhi.

He said the VB-G RAMG Act adopts a 60:40 fund-sharing pattern between the Center and the states, which will impose greater responsibility, financial discipline and accountability on the states. BJP National Secretary Om Prakash Dhankhar, BJP State General Secretary N.

Gautam Rao and State Kisan Morcha President Basavapuram Lakshminarayya and others participated.