The government has notified an interim list of 318 permissible works under India’s new rural employment framework. The framework takes effect on July 1, under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act 2025, known as the VB – G RAM G Act.
The works fall under four themes the law identifies: water security, core rural infrastructure, rural livelihoods, and special works to mitigate extreme weather events. The list spans natural resource management, irrigation, rural connectivity, community infrastructure, livelihood-supporting assets, climate resilience and disaster preparedness.
It is not final. The rural development ministry has sent the list to states and other ministries and asked for their views, officials said, so more works can be added for the needs of particular areas.
Ministries meet
On Wednesday the ministry held a high-level inter-ministerial consultation on the draft convergence framework under the Act. Rural development secretary Rohit Kansal chaired it. Representatives and nodal officers from 18 ministries and departments attended.
Kansal said convergence is a core pillar of the law and is essential for handling linked priorities: water security, livelihoods, infrastructure, climate resilience and local economic development. He described a “single plan – multi funding” approach in which different schemes and programmes pursue common outcomes while keeping their own mandates and funding structures.
Village-level planning
“At the centre of the framework is the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan (VGPP), which serves as the primary planning instrument for rural development at the Gram Panchayat level,” the ministry said in its statement.
Officials said the plans will be prepared with community participation and approved by the Gram Sabha. The VGPP is meant to tie local needs to the resources, expertise and investments available under central and state schemes.
“The Framework envisages a bottom-up planning architecture in which development priorities identified by Gram Sabhas are aggregated through Panchayati Raj Institutions and aligned with sectoral programmes of different ministries and departments,” the ministry said.
The convergence framework is proposed to start operating on July 1, the day the Act comes into force.
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