The government notified 375 permissible works under the new VB–G RAM G scheme on Tuesday, a 41% increase from the previous MGNREGA framework. This expansion adds solar lighting, waste-recycling, and disaster-preparedness projects to existing rural infrastructure like ponds and roads. These changes aim to boost village development and local livelihoods.
Its recently revamped version, Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB–G RAM G, notified 375 permissible works on Tuesday, up 41% from the 266 works under the previous MGNREGA framework. The new list includes solar lighting, waste-recycling facilities, greywater treatment, cold storage, agro-processing, infrastructure for self-help groups and works to prepare villages for floods, droughts, cyclones and forest fires.
To be sure, this does not mean that any of the older works enlisted have been removed. Ponds, canals, check dams, irrigation structures, plantations and rural roads continue to remain a part of the programme.