**Executive Summary**
The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G Bill, 2025 was introduced in Lok Sabha. It guarantees 125 days of wage employment to rural households and focuses on empowerment, growth, convergence, and saturation. State governments must prepare a scheme to give effect to the guarantee within six months of the Act's commencement.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Wage Employment Guarantee:**
* Guarantees 125 days of wage employment per year to rural households.
* Focuses on empowerment, growth, convergence, and saturation.
* **Planning and Infrastructure:**
* 'Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans' to be prepared by Gram Panchayats.
* These plans will use PM Gati Shakti for convergence of schemes on a saturation basis.
* Creates an integrated 'Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack' for rural public works.
* Prioritizes water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood infrastructure, and mitigation of extreme weather events.
* **Labor and Agriculture:**
* Provisions to facilitate the availability of farm labor during peak agricultural seasons.
* States can notify up to 60 days in a financial year during which works under the Bill shall not be undertaken to facilitate availability of farm labor.
* **Transparency and Accountability:**
* Robust transparency and accountability mechanisms.
* Includes weekly public disclosure systems and strengthened Social Audit.
* **Governance and Digital Infrastructure:**
* Comprehensive governance ecosystem built on digital public infrastructure.
* Aims for efficient and high-integrity implementation.
* Includes biometric authentication, spatial-technology-enabled planning, mobile-based reporting with real-time dashboards, and AI-enabled analytics.
* **Financial Aspects:**
* Bill will operate as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS).
* Fund sharing pattern of 90:10 for North-Eastern and Himalayan States/UT and 60:40 for all other States.
* Normative Allocation to States based on objective parameters.
* States to ensure transparent and need-based intra-State distribution of funds.
* **Implementation and Monitoring:**
* Gram Panchayats shall convene Weekly Disclosure meetings in the Gram Panchayat Bhavans.
* Wage rates will be notified by the Central Government.
* Bill provides for Unemployment allowance if employment is not provided within 15 days.
**Impact Analysis**
**Rural Households**
* **Impact:** Increased guaranteed wage employment, enhanced livelihood opportunities, and potential for empowerment through rural development initiatives.
* **Action Required:** Volunteer for unskilled manual work to avail wage employment.
**Gram Panchayats**
* **Impact:** Responsible for preparing 'Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans' and ensuring convergence of schemes.
* **Action Required:** Prepare 'Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans' using PM Gati Shakti, convene Weekly Disclosure meetings in the Gram Panchayat Bhavans.
**State Governments**
* **Impact:** Responsible for implementing the scheme, ensuring transparent fund distribution, and paying unemployment allowance.
* **Action Required:** Prepare a scheme to give effect to the guarantee within six months, ensure transparent intra-State distribution of funds, and notify periods during which works under the Bill shall not be undertaken.
**Central Government**
* **Impact:** Sets wage rates and oversees the implementation of the scheme.
* **Action Required:** Notify the wage rates.
Key Entities Referenced
Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G Bill, 2025: A bill introduced in Lok Sabha to establish a rural development framework aligned with Viksit Bharat @2047, guaranteeing 125 days of wage employment to rural households.
PM Gati Shakti: A national master plan for multimodal connectivity aimed at coordinated planning and project execution.
Ministry of Rural Development: The ministry responsible for introducing the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G Bill, 2025.
Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack: An integrated infrastructure stack envisioned for rural public works.
Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans (VGPPs): Bottom-up, convergence-based and saturation-oriented plans prepared by Gram Panchayats.
Ministry of Rural Development
Grameen Vikas ka Naya Sankalp, Rozgar ki Nayi
Guarantee
Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduces the Viksit Bharat -
Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G
वकसत भारत जी राम जी
RAM G ( – ) Bill, 2025 in Lok Sabha today
The Bill guarantees 125 days of wage employment to rural
households and focuses on Empowerment, Growth,
Convergence and Saturation
‘Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans’ to be prepared by the Gram
Panchayats on Saturation basis with convergence of
schemes, using PM Gati Shakti
Integrated 'Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack'
envisioned for rural public works
Special focus on water security works, core rural
infrastructure, livelihood related infrastructure, and special
works to mitigate extreme weather events
Provisions to facilitate availability of farm labour during peak
agricultural seasons
Robust transparency and accountability mechanismssuch as
weekly public disclosure systems and strengthened Social
Audit
Comprehensive governance ecosystem built on digital public
infrastructure for efficient and high-integrity implementation
प्रव तथ: 16 DEC 2025 1:14PM by PIB DelhiThe Union Minister of Rural Development and Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Shri Shivraj Singh
Chouhan introduced the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G
RAM G (वकसत भारत–जी राम जी) Bill, 2025 in Lok Sabha today. The Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar
and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G (वकसत भारत – जी राम जी) Bill, 2025 seeks to establish a
rural development framework aligned with the national vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, by providing a
statutory guarantee of one hundred and twenty-five days of wage employment in every financial year to
every rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work; to promote
empowerment, growth, convergence and saturation for a prosperous and resilient rural Bharat.
This landmark legislation aims to establish a future-ready,convergence driven,saturation-oriented rural
development architecture. It will support the accelerated pace of rural development in accordance with the
vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, thereby empowering the rural households through increased employment
opportunities. The Bill provides forinstitutionalising convergence of all relevant schemes through a
unified planning process anchored in Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans, aggregated into Viksit Bharat National
Rural Infrastructure Stack. The Bill provides for Robust transparency and accountability mechanisms
through technology-enabled architecture and enforcement via legal and administrative provisions.
Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G (वकसतभारत–
जीरामजी) Bill, 2025will enhance the statutory wage employment guarantee to 125 days per rural household
in every financial year, for adults who volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work.
All works undertaken under this Bill will be aggregated into the Viksit Bharat National Rural
Infrastructure Stack, creating a unified national framework for rural public works. The thematic priority
will be accorded to water security through water-related works, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-related
infrastructure, and special works aimed at mitigating the impact of extreme weather events and disaster
preparedness. This approach will ensure the creation of productive, durable, resilient and transformative
rural assets across the country.
All works under this Bill will be identified throughViksit Gram Panchayat Plans (VGPPs), which are
bottom-up, convergence-based and saturation-oriented. These plans will be aggregated at the Block,
District and State levels to ensure alignment with broader sectoral priorities, thereby creating a unified,
Whole-of-Government rural development framework. The VGPPs will be prepared using spatial
technology and integrated with PM Gati Shakti to enable coordinated and efficient planning.
States will be empowered to notify in advance, periods aggregating to 60 days in a financial year during
which works under the Bill shall not be undertaken, in order to facilitate the availability of farm labour
during peak sowing and harvesting seasons.
Every State Government is required to prepare a Scheme for giving effect to the guarantee proposed under
this bill,within six months of the commencement of the Act. It will operate as a Centrally Sponsored
Scheme (CSS), with a fund sharing pattern of 90:10 for North-Eastern and Himalayan States/UT and
60:40 for all other States.
To promote inclusive growth and equitable distribution of financial resources in a fair manner, the bill
provides for Normative Allocation to States based on objective parameters. States will ensure
transparent and need-based intra-State distribution of funds across Districts and Gram Panchayats, taking
into account thecategory of the Panchayats and local developmental needs, thereby strengthening equity,
transparency and accountability.
The Bill mandates a comprehensive governance ecosystem built on digital public infrastructure, including
biometric authentication, spatial-technology-enabled planning and monitoring, mobile-based reporting
with real-time dashboards, AI-enabled analyticsand strengthened social audit mechanisms, ensuring
transparent, efficient and high-integrity implementation.The Gram panchayat shall convene Weekly Disclosure meetings in the Gram Panchayat Bhavans to
present the status of works, payments, grievances, progress of the works, muster rolls etc. In addition,
weekly disclosures shall be automatically generated, and displayed in a publicly accessible physical and
digital formats.
Under the Bill, wage rates will be notified by the Central Government and, until such notification, the
existing MGNREGA wage rates will continue to apply. Bill provides for Unemployment allowance if
employment is not provided within 15 days, at prescribed rates, to be paid by the State Governments.
Background: Transformation in Rural India
Over the past two decades, rural India has undergone transformative changes, marked by saturation-
oriented delivery of major Government schemes; expanded rural connectivity, housing, drinking water,
sanitation and electrification; deeper financial inclusion with improved digital access; diversification of
the rural workforce; and rising aspirations for better incomes, productive infrastructure and greater climate
resilience. These developments call for a recalibrated approach that can respond to evolving aspirations,
leverage technology and ensure convergence across Central, State and Local schemes.
To cater to the changing aspirations, stronger convergence is required to establish an integrated, Whole-of-
Government rural development framework covering several complementary Government schemes. It is
essential that rural infrastructure creation must transition from fragmented provisioning to a coherent and
future-oriented approach and it is also essential that resources are distributed in a fair manner to reduce
disparities and promote inclusive growth across all rural areas of the country based on objective
parameters.
As national development advances, rural development programs require periodical revision to remain
aligned with emerging needs and further aspirations. In the vastly changed circumstances of today, a
transformational approach to rural development is essential to achieve the objectives of Viksit Bharat
@2047. The expanding scale of development interventions is expected to create additional employment
opportunities for rural households. It is imperative to engage the rural workforce more effectively to
support the vision of Viksit Bharat, while empowering them through enhanced livelihood gurarantee.
Therefore, the Government has resolved to enhance the wage-employment guarantee for rural households
from one hundred days to one hundred and twenty-five days per financial year for anchoring rural asset
creation through the enactment of an appropriate Act.
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