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The Rural Development Ministry said a logo plan contention for the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G) has been launched.
The contention is unrecorded connected the government’s national engagement platform, MyGov. The Ministry said successful a station connected X connected Saturday (March 7, 2026), inviting radical to taxable originative designs reflecting the imaginativeness of agrarian improvement and employment generation.
The Ministry said it seeks to beforehand nationalist information successful branding the programme, which is simply a cardinal pillar of the government’s agrarian improvement strategy aligned with the imaginativeness of “Viksit Bharat 2047”.
The past day for submitting entries is March 20, and the victor volition person a currency prize of ₹50,000.
In a station connected X, the Ministry said the logo should bespeak the imaginativeness of a developed India.
According to details shared connected the MyGov portal, the selected plan volition beryllium adopted by the ministry for authoritative and promotional usage related to the Act and associated programmes. The contention seeks archetypal logos that symbolise employment generation, livelihood enhancement and inclusive agrarian growth.
The Viksit Bharat — Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 and provides a statutory warrant of up to 125 days of wage employment successful a fiscal twelvemonth to agrarian households whose big members unpaid for unskilled manual work.
Activists and absorption parties person criticised the VB G-RAM-G scheme, alleging that it weakens the rights-based model of MGNREGA, whitethorn dilute the ineligible warrant of work, and person besides alleged that the caller strategy is much centralised than MGNREGA, which was drafted aft wide consultations.
The authorities has meantime claimed that the caller Act volition further fortify the agrarian employment warrant by providing 125 days of work, compared to the 100 days provided nether MGNREGA.
The authorities has besides said the caller model aims to fortify agrarian livelihoods, amended accountability and nexus employment procreation with the instauration of durable agrarian infrastructure and different improvement outcomes.
