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Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) announced an interim allocation of ₹95,962 crore for the caller agrarian employment scheme, the Vikshit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-GRAMG). This sum does not see the State governments’ share. Most States volition person to lend an further 40% of the sum allocated to them. The combined outlay for the strategy volition beryllium ₹1.51 lakh crore.
Mr. Chouhan said that the allocation had been made adjacent earlier notifying the scheme’s rules and framing the look dictating organisation to antithetic States, to guarantee “a seamless transition” from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). No State, helium said, would look immoderate simplification successful funds.
“Without causing immoderate inconvenience to workers, we are moving from MGNREGA to VB-GRAMG. There volition not beryllium a spread of adjacent a azygous time successful the availability of work,” helium said.
Funding formula
According to the Rural Development Ministry, Uttar Pradesh has been allotted the highest interim allocation of ₹9,721.48 crore, followed by West Bengal (₹8,508 crore), Tamil Nadu (₹7,585.49 crore), Rajasthan (₹7,581.87 crore), Andhra Pradesh (₹7,707.21 crore) and Bihar (₹6,715.83 crore). The full allocation for States stands astatine ₹92,550.17 crore, portion Union Territories person been allocated ₹1,291.52 crore. An further ₹1,850.62 crore has been earmarked for cardinal medication and societal audits, taking the full to ₹95,692.31 crore.
The allocation is mostly successful enactment with funds fixed to States nether MGNREGA successful erstwhile fiscal years. The thrust of the caller programme, however, is to guarantee that the employment strategy has a wider beingness successful economically weaker States, arsenic indicated by the connection successful the draught rules to usage the 16th Finance Commission’s horizontal devolution look to find Central allocations to States. The last look for distributing the funds, expected to beryllium notified connected July 1, could change the aboriginal stock of antithetic States.
Four States not ready
Mr. Chouhan besides said that 26 States person completed the procedural requirements indispensable to instrumentality the caller scheme, portion 4 States — Jharkhand, Karnataka, Telangana, and Mizoram — are yet to implicit each formalities. However, representatives of these States besides attended the gathering and assured the Centre that they were preparing for implementation.
Prior to the implementation of the VB-GRAMG scheme, States person to framework rules, implicit e-KYC of beneficiaries, hole the blackout play according to their cultivation cycles, and transportation retired capacity-building exercises astatine the territory and artifact levels.
Despite a alteration successful authorities successful West Bengal, with the BJP present successful power, the contented of settling pending dues nether MGNREGA, worthy ₹8,508 crore, continues to stay unresolved. “Till those disputes are settled, that question does not arise. For the remaining period, the West Bengal authorities has fixed successful penning that it is acceptable to judge each the rules and conditions of the Central government,” Mr. Chouhan said.
