VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 (MGNREGA's Successor)
VB-G RAM G - the abbreviation stands for Viksit Bharat, Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission, Gramin - is now India's rural employment law, taking over from the programme most exam aspirants know simply as MGNREGA. Lawmakers cleared the bill in December 2025, the President put her signature to it on 21 December 2025, and the new framework began operating in every rural block of the country from the following July, closing out the older guarantee that same day. The headline number is a jump in the guaranteed work-days per household from 100 to 125 a year, but the change that matters more for governance and economy questions sits underneath it: funding shifts from an open-ended, purely need-based design to a fixed, rules-based 'normative allocation' shared between the Centre and states, planned bottom-up through Gram Panchayat plans and pointed deliberately at durable rural infrastructure.
- VB-G RAM G
- MGNREGA
- rural employment guarantee
- Viksit Bharat
- Gram Panchayat plans
- normative allocation
- Ministry of Rural Development
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