Govt. to launch nationwide awareness campaign on VB-G RAM G scheme

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Various enactment      workers signifier    a protestation  against Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill 2025, and demanded its withdrawal and regenerate  Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), astatine  Jantar Mantar successful  New Delhi connected  Friday, December 19, 2025.

Various enactment workers signifier a protestation against Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill 2025, and demanded its withdrawal and regenerate Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), astatine Jantar Mantar successful New Delhi connected Friday, December 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

The authorities is expected to motorboat a nationwide run soon to dispersed consciousness astir the benefits of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) strategy passed by Parliament.

The Congress Working Committee volition conscionable connected December 27 to deliberate connected the replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the caller legislation, VB-G RAM G. The enactment is reportedly readying to initiate a run astir the issue. MGNREGA was a flagship strategy introduced by the UPA-I authorities successful 2005.

In this light, the authorities whitethorn besides antagonistic the objections raised by the Congress and its allies. The authorities has said that the caller instrumentality volition supply a statutory warrant of 125 days of wage employment successful each fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members unpaid to undertake unskilled manual work; to beforehand empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation for a prosperous and resilient agrarian Bharat.

“The Bill provides for institutionalising convergence of each applicable schemes done a unified readying process anchored successful Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans, aggregated into Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack. The Bill provides for robust transparency and accountability mechanisms done technology-enabled architecture and enforcement via ineligible and administrative provisions,” the authorities had earlier said.

Under the law, each works undertaken volition beryllium aggregated into the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, with thematic precedence fixed to h2o security, halfway agrarian infrastructure, livelihood-related infrastructure, and peculiar works aimed astatine mitigating the interaction of utmost upwind events and catastrophe preparedness.

Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans volition beryllium aggregated astatine the block, territory and State levels to guarantee alignment with broader sectoral priorities; and prepared utilizing spatial exertion and integrated with PM Gati Shakti. States volition beryllium empowered to notify successful advance, periods aggregating to 60 days successful a fiscal twelvemonth during which works nether the instrumentality volition not beryllium undertaken, successful bid to facilitate the availability of workplace labour during highest sowing and harvesting seasons.

It volition run arsenic a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS), with a money sharing signifier of 90:10 for North-Eastern and Himalayan States/UT and 60:40 for each different States. The instrumentality provides for unemployment allowance if occupation is not provided wrong 15 days, astatine prescribed rates, to beryllium paid by State governments.

Published - December 20, 2025 02:52 americium IST

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