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Viksit Bharat -G RAM- G Act 2025

The Viksit Bharat - G RAM G Act,2025 replaces MGNREGA with a new statutory framework aligning rural employment with the long-term vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, while strengthening accountability, infrastructure outcomes and income security.

Key Takeaways

  1. The Viksit Bharat- G RAM G Act, 2025 replaces MGNREGA with a new statutory framework aligned with Viksit Bharat 2047.
  2. The employment guarantee is enhanced to 125 days per rural household, strengthening income security
  3. Links wage employment with durable rural infrastructure across 4 priority areas.
  4. Strengthens decentralised planning through Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans and nationally integrated through the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack.
  5. The shift to normative funding and a centrally sponsored structure improves predictability, accountability and Centre-State partnership.

                            Rural employment has been a cornerstone of India’s social protection framework for nearly two decades. Since its enactment in 2005, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) played a key role in providing wage employment, stabilising rural incomes and creating basic infrastructure. Over time, however, the structure and objectives of rural India have evolved significantly. Rising incomes, expanded connectivity, widespread digital penetration and diversified livelihoods have altered the nature of rural employment needs.

                     Against this backdrop, the President of India has given assent to the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025 marking a significant milestone in the transformation of rural employment policy. The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025 represents a comprehensive statutory overhaul of MGNREGA, aligning rural employment with the long-term vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, while strengthening accountability, infrastructure outcomes and income security.

                The Act guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household in each financial year to such rural households whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work, contributing to income security beyond the earlier 100-day entitlement, with an aggregated 60-day no-work period to ensure the availability of agricultural labour during peak sowing and harvesting season. Workers continue to receive 125 guaranteed days of employment within the remaining 305 days, ensuring that both farmers and labourers benefit. The disbursement of daily wages shall be made on a weekly basis or, in any case, not later than a fortnight after the date on which such work was done.

Employment creation is integrated with infrastructure development through four priority verticals
  1. Water security through water-related works
  2. Core-rural infrastructure
  3. Livelihood- related infrastructure
  4. Special works to mitigate extreme weather events

All assets created are aggregated into the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, ensuring a unified, coordinated national development strategy. Planning is decentralised through Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans, which are prepared locally and spatially integrated with national systems such as PM Gati Shakti.

  • VB GRAM G-BILL - 2025