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VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 (MGNREGA's Successor)
VB-G RAM G, short for Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), is India's statutory rural job guarantee, enacted in 2025 as the successor to MGNREGA. It is in the news because the Ministry of Rural Development has notified the law's Schedule of Permissible Works, a list of 375 works, three months after the Act took effect on 1 July 2026.
Last updated 6 October 20265 min read
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Adds the notified Schedule of Permissible Works: 375 works in four categories, 41% more than MGNREGA's 266, with disaster preparedness a separate category for the first time.
- VB-G RAM G
- MGNREGA
- rural employment guarantee
- Viksit Bharat
- Gram Panchayat plans
- normative allocation
- Ministry of Rural Development
- Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan
- Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Card
- permissible works
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