**Executive Summary**
The Union Minister of State for Education and Development of North Eastern Region, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar, addressed the media in New Delhi regarding the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G) Act, 2025. The Act, passed by Parliament, aims to transform rural employment and development. It marks a significant renewal of India’s rural employment guarantee by expanding statutory employment to 125 days.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025:**
* Marks a decisive reform in India's rural employment and development framework.
* Anchored in principles of empowerment, growth, convergence, and saturation.
* Aims to transform rural employment from a standalone welfare intervention into an integrated instrument of development.
* Expands statutory employment to 125 days.
* **Key Provisions:**
* Enhances statutory wage employment guarantee to 125 days per financial year for rural households.
* Seeks to advance empowerment, inclusive growth, convergence of development initiatives, and saturation-based delivery.
* Strengthens income security for rural households.
* Modernises governance and accountability mechanisms.
* Links wage employment with the creation of durable and productive rural assets.
* **Focus on Education Sector:**
* Enables works that strengthen rural education infrastructure by addressing gaps in physical facilities and basic amenities.
* Provides for construction and maintenance of classrooms, laboratories, playgrounds, compound walls, toilets, and kitchen sheds for government schools.
* Reinforces early childhood education through construction and upkeep of anganwadi buildings and toilets.
* Expands learning opportunities through rural library buildings and training-and-skill development centres, supporting youth, women, and adult learners.
**Impact Analysis**
**Rural Households:**
* **Impact:** Increased income security through enhanced wage employment guarantee.
* **Action Required:** Participate in wage employment programs and contribute to the creation of durable rural assets.
**Rural Communities:**
* **Impact:** Modernised governance, improved infrastructure, and enhanced learning opportunities.
* **Action Required:** Engage in decentralised and participatory planning for rural development initiatives.
**Government Schools:**
* **Impact:** Improved physical facilities, creating safer and more functional learning environments.
* **Action Required:** Utilise resources effectively to enhance the quality of education.
**Early Childhood Education (Anganwadi):**
* **Impact:** Reinforcement of foundation through improved buildings and toilet facilities.
* **Action Required:** Ensure hygiene, dignity, and continuity of services in early childhood education.
**Youth, Women, and Adult Learners:**
* **Impact:** Expanded learning opportunities through access to knowledge resources and vocational pathways.
* **Action Required:** Utilize library buildings and training centers.
Key Entities Referenced
Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025: Key legislation aimed at transforming rural employment in India and providing wage employment guarantee.
Ministry of Education: The ministry responsible for matters related to education and skill development, commenting on the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act.
Viksit Bharat@2047: A vision document setting goals for India's development by 2047, aligned with the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act.
Ministry of Education
Viksit Bharat-G RAM G aligned with the Vision of
Viksit Bharat@2047 – Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
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प्रव तथ: 10 JAN 2026 7:33PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State for Education and Development of North Eastern Region, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar,
interacted with the media in New Delhi today. While addressing the media, Dr. Majumdar stated that the
Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G) Act, 2025 marks a
significant milestone in the transformation of Rural Bharat.
He highlighted that the Act enhances the statutory wage employment guarantee to 125 days per financial
year for rural households. The Act seeks to advance empowerment, inclusive growth, convergence of
development initiatives, and saturation-based delivery, thereby strengthening the foundation for aprosperous, resilient, and self-reliant Rural Bharat.
He further informed that Parliament has passed the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika
Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, marking a decisive reform in India’s rural employment and development
framework. Anchored in the principles of empowerment, growth, convergence, and saturation, the Act
aims to transform rural employment from a standalone welfare intervention into an integrated instrument
of development.
The Minister stressed that the legislation will strengthen income security for rural households, modernise
governance and accountability mechanisms, and link wage employment with the creation of durable and
productive rural assets, thereby laying the foundation for a prosperous and resilient Rural Bharat.
Focus on Education Sector:
The Minister informed that the VB–G RAM G framework enables a wide range of works that can directly
strengthen rural education infrastructure by addressing long-standing gaps in physical facilities and basic
amenities. Provisions for the construction and maintenance of additional classrooms, laboratories,
playgrounds, compound walls, toilets, and kitchen sheds for government schools will help create safer,
more functional, and child-friendly learning environments.
Similarly, the construction and upkeep of anganwadi buildings and toilets will reinforce the foundation of
early childhood education by ensuring dignity, hygiene, and continuity of services.
Dr. Majumdar also highlighted that the inclusion of rural library buildings and training-and-skill
development centres expands learning opportunities beyond formal schooling, supporting youth, women,
and adult learners through access to knowledge resources and vocational pathways within the village
itself.
The Minister emphasised that the passage of the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika
Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 represents a significant renewal of India’s rural employment guarantee. By
expanding statutory employment to 125 days, embedding decentralised and participatory planning,
strengthening accountability, and institutionalising convergence and saturation-based development, the
Act repositions rural employment as a strategic instrument for empowerment, inclusive growth, and the
creation of a prosperous and resilient Rural Bharat—fully aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047.
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