{"id":36455,"date":"2023-07-20T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=36455"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:35:04","slug":"the-rajasthan-minimum-guaranteed-income-bill-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-rajasthan-minimum-guaranteed-income-bill-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Understanding the 3 Broad Categories of the Bill<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of the Bill<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How have Social Activists Reacted?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rajasthan government tabled the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill aims to provide<strong> entitlement-based social security<\/strong> to support the individuals or households with an additional minimum guaranteed income in the form of a guaranteed wage or social security pension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>What is the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the Bill, <strong>all families<\/strong> of the state get <strong>guaranteed employment of 125 days every year<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The aged, disabled, widows, and single women<\/strong> will get a minimum<strong> pension of Rs 1,000 per month.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Importantly,<strong> the pension <\/strong>will be<strong> increased <\/strong>at the rate of <strong>15% each year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bill has three broad categories:<\/strong> right to minimum guaranteed income, right to guaranteed employment, and right to guaranteed social security pension.<\/li>\n<li>The government anticipates an additional expenditure of<strong> Rs 2,500 crore per year<\/strong> for this scheme, which may increase with time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Understanding the 3 Broad Categories of the Bill:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Minimum guaranteed income:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Each adult citizen of the state<\/strong> has been guaranteed a minimum income for 125 days a year through &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>The Rajasthan government\u2019s flagship <strong>Indira Gandhi Shahri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana<\/strong> for urban areas, and<\/li>\n<li>The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (<strong>MGNREGA<\/strong>) in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li>In his budget speech this year, the CM had increased the employment guarantee per family <strong>from 100 days to 125 days<\/strong> for his urban employment scheme.<\/li>\n<li>The state will <strong>supplement the MGNREGA\u2019s <\/strong>100 days by providing jobs for an additional 25 days in rural areas.<\/li>\n<li>Next, the government will provide<strong> eligible categories with a minimum pension of Rs 1,000.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guaranteed employment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The right to employment <\/strong>states that post the work in urban or rural employment schemes, the minimum wages should be paid weekly or in any case not later than a fortnight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The state will designate a program officer<\/strong> &#8211; not below the rank of Block Development Officer in rural areas and an Executive Officer of the local body in urban areas &#8211; to implement the Act.<\/li>\n<li>Among other things, the Program Officer <strong>shall ensure that the work site is within a radius of 5 Kms<\/strong> of where the job card is registered in both rural and urban areas.<\/li>\n<li>If the Program Officer fails to provide employment within 15 days from the receipt of the application, <strong>the applicant shall be entitled to an unemployment allowance<\/strong> on a weekly basis and in any case not later than a fortnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guaranteed social security pension:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every person falling in the category of old age\/ specially abled\/ widow\/ single woman with prescribed eligibility shall be entitled to a <strong>pension<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It will increase over the base rate in two installments<\/strong> &#8211; 5% in July and 10% in January of each financial year starting 2024-2025.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Significance of the Bill:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. (<strong>Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>It is a moral responsibility<\/strong> of every government to ensure that everyone gets justice.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, the Bill is part of a bouquet of schemes and measures undertaken by the Rajasthan government <strong>to provide relief from inflation with an eye on the polls later this year<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><strong>How have Social Activists Reacted?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Bill contains many firsts in the country<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill\u2019s approach, guaranteeing minimum employment and pensions by law, <strong>distinguishes it from the cash transfer schemes that various other states have.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5gSmISMdr1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gehlot Govt Tables Bill to Guarantee Minimum Income<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q) What is the legal\/constitutional status of the right to work in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Indian Constitution does not explicitly recognise the right to work as a fundamental right. It is placed in Part IV (DPSP) of the Constitution under Article 41, which makes it unenforceable in the court of law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q)\u00a0 What is the Atal Pension Yojana (APY)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Atal Pension Yojana, formerly known as Swavalamban Yojana is a government-backed pension scheme in India launched in 2015. It is primarily targeted at the unorganised sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/rajasthan-minimum-income-bill-provisions-what-makes-it-unique-8849170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Rajasthan minimum income Bill: provisions, what makes it unique<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023 aims to provide entitlement-based social security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}