US EditionLetters to the Editor for December 17, 2025
- On December 17, 2025, a column warned that a Bill would restructure MGNREGA, shifting nearly 40% of funding burden to States and renaming it the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Bill.
- States differ vastly in fiscal capacity, and transferring nearly 40% of expenditure without assured revenue devolution risks hollowing out the programme where rural beneficiaries need it most, critics say.
- MGNREGA's founders framed it as a 100-day guarantee, but commentators say that promise has eroded and become politicised, urging welfare schemes be preserved and improved rather than rebranded.
- The Finance Commission was urged to spell out compensatory devolution measures, as commentators warned poorer States could face uneven fiscal pressure affecting rural livelihoods without safeguards.
- Observers warn the move threatens cooperative federalism and programme credibility, prompting calls for Parliamentary Standing Committee scrutiny amid the national debate following December 17, 2025 commentary.
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Rolf Becker was a wonderful actor with a backbone and a basic political conviction, for which he also publicly advocated. This is not very widespread in his industry.
LFP Letters to the Editor: December 17, 2025
Ellen and Les Trimm probably are spinning in their graves. They were friends of my parents, and were the last private owners of the beautiful home at 1269 Hyde Park Rd. Ellen was hoping it would be converted to a church when they sold, but a restaurant was the outcome.
Letters to the editor – December 17, 2025
Open spaces, open viewsCharles Pace of Birkirkara writes:How pleasant to walk along Wied Riħana and enjoy the fruits of its restoration project, attributed to Project Green. This valley, starting at the roundabout midway to Burmarrad, is now enjoying a project involving both embellishment and control and use of flood waters.It is a pleasure to see...
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