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From MGNREGA to VB-GRAM: What changes for women workers?

Changes in the world's biggest job guarantee scheme will have the most significant impact on rural women and might fuel distress migration amongst men, warn researchers

Aishwarya Mohanty

Sajid Ali

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  • Aishwarya Mohanty is a Special Correspondent with The Migration Story and her work amplifies voices from India’s heartlands. Her reporting spans gender, rural issues, social justice, environment, and climate vulnerabilities. Formerly with The Indian Express, her work has appeared in Mongabay, The Migration Story, Behan Box, Article-14, Frontline, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and others. She is also the recipient of the ICRC-PII Award for climate change reporting (2021), the Laadli Media Award for gender-sensitive reporting (2023 & 2025), the Sanjay Ghose Media Award for grassroots journalism (2023), and the Odisha Women in Media Award (2024). Along with this, she co-owns a permaculture farm, Routes to Roots Natural Farms, with her partner in Nimach, Madhya Pradesh.

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  • Sajid Ali is a New Delhi-based journalist and heads The Migration Story's multimedia vertical. He has over eight years of experience in multimedia storytelling and investigative reporting. He was previously Head of Multimedia at ThePrint India (2017-2025), where he led video production and flagship programmes like Cut The Clutter, Off The Cuff, Democracy Wall and many others. His frontline experiences include covering the 2020 India-China border flare-up, reporting from the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict near the Line of Control in Poonch & Uri, in-depth coverage of the Pahalgam tourist massacre, and extensive reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, culture, and business. Sajid also trains journalists on pre- and post-production and AI integration in visual storytelling.

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