VB Gram G yojana for rural workers policy and its features-The President of India has assented to the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB—GRAM G) Bill, 2025, marking a key advancement in rural employment policy.
This Act replaces the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005,
It is boosting the statutory wage employment guarantee to 125 days per financial year for rural households and promoting empowerment, inclusive growth, initiative convergence, and saturation-based delivery for a prosperous Rural Bharat.
Core Reforms
Parliament’s passage of the Bill establishes a modern framework aligned with Viksit Bharat @2047.
It will shift rural employment from welfare to integrated development.
It enhances income security, modernizes governance, links jobs to durable assets, and emphasizes principles of empowerment, growth, convergence, and saturation.
Salient Features
- Enhanced Guarantee: Provides at least 125 days of unskilled manual work per household annually (Section 5(1)), surpassing the prior 100-day limit for better livelihood stability.
- Agricultural Balance: States can notify a 60-day pause during peak seasons (Section 6), maintaining the full guarantee otherwise.
- Timely Payments: Wages paid weekly or within 15 days, with delay compensation (Section 5(3) and Schedule II).
- Asset Focus: Employment creates assets in water security, rural infrastructure, livelihoods,
- And climate mitigation via bottom-up Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans (VGPPs) integrated with PM Gati Shakti (Sections 4(1)–4(3), Schedule I).
Funding and Governance
Implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with 60:40 Centre-State sharing (90:10 for special states, 100% for certain UTs), using normative allocations (Sections 4(5), 22(4)).
Administrative costs rise to 9% for better capacity; planning remains decentralized with Panchayat authority (Sections 16–19).
VB Gram G yojana for rural workers policy, and its features
Key Assurances
The Act upholds the right to demand employment or unemployment allowance (after 15 days)
It uses technology for transparency (biometric, geo-tagging), and strengthens social audits without diluting entitlements or local decision-making.
VB Gram G Yojana Frequently Asked Questions
No, it replaces the old scheme of MGNREGA policy, a job guarantee to rural poor
The guarantee period increased to 125 days
MGNREGA was the centre scheme now VB Gram G yojana state also contribute
