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The Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or the Viksit Bharat – G RAM G Bill, 2025, seeks to establish a rural development framework aligned with the national vision of Viksit Bharat 2047
File picture: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, left, along with other leaders during a protest against the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill that seeks to replace the existing MGNREGA, at the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.
| Photo Credit:
Ravi Choudhary
The Parliament has passed the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): Viksit Bharat – G RAM G Bill, 2025. While the Rajya Sabha approved it last night, the Lok Sabha had passed the Bill earlier in the day on Thursday.
The Bill seeks to establish a rural development framework aligned with the national vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. Under the legislation, a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment will be provided in every financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work.
The fund-sharing pattern between the Central and State governments will be 60:40 for all states, except the North-Eastern and Himalayan states, where the sharing arrangement will be 90:10. The State governments will continue to pay unemployment allowance and compensation.
The Opposition has criticised the Bill as a shift from demand-driven job to a supply-driven work offer, as the government would decide the amount, even for the States, to be spent on the rural employment programme.
Published on December 19, 2025