India
VB-G RAM G: 375 Kinds of Rural Work Now Allowed Under the New Jobs Scheme, 41% More Than Before
NEW DELHI: Rural households can now be given work on 375 kinds of projects under the government's new rural employment law, after the Ministry of Rural Development notified the scheme's Schedule of Permissible Works, All India Radio reported on October 6.
The list is "a 41 percent expansion over the 266 works under the previous framework", the ministry said. It is the first full list of what work can be done under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G, which replaced the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act this year.
The permitted works are grouped under four themes:
Works are to be chosen locally, through "a bottom-up, decentralized planning process under the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan, approved by the Gram Sabha", the ministry said, and tracked through a national digital system, the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack.
