VB-G RAM G Schedule Notifies 375 Permissible Rural Works

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), short VB-G RAM G, Act of 2025. The Schedule, put out on 6 October 2026, allows 375 works under the new rural works framework. That is a 41 per cent widening on the 266 works the earlier framework carried.

Four pillars

The works have been grouped afresh under four themes instead of a plain list of asset types. The aim is to tie wage employment to assets that last and to development results that can be measured.

Water Security takes the largest share

With 128 works, Water Security is the biggest of the four. It covers check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes, recharge shafts, injection wells, the revival of rivers, rivulets and nallahs, the reclaiming of waterlogged land and the repair of field channels that carry water. Drip irrigation, sprinklers, rooftop rainwater harvesting and tankas are allowed, and so are newer ideas such as ice-stupas and artificial glaciers.

Rural infrastructure and livelihoods

The 111 works under Core Rural Infrastructure include solar street lighting, waste-to-wealth recycling plants, greywater treatment units, segregation sheds, village libraries, veterinary and rural health centres, Common Service Centres, multipurpose youth centres and extra classrooms and laboratories in government schools. Repair of Jal Jeevan Mission water-supply works, village parks and footpaths are also covered. Livelihood-related Infrastructure gets 98 works, among them agro-processing and value-addition units, cleaning, grading and packaging units, cold storages, mini flour mills, market yards, dairy structures, mushroom and sericulture sheds, poly-houses and aquaculture structures, besides worksheds, SHE Marts and federation buildings for Self-Help Groups. This head now takes 26 per cent of all permissible works against only 1.1 per cent earlier.

A first for disaster preparedness

For the first time the rural works list carries a head of its own for extreme weather and disaster preparedness, with 38 works. These are flood relief shelters, retaining walls, strengthening of embankments, flood protection works, the restoring of village roads and community assets after a disaster, and forest-fire measures such as fire lines and fuel-buffer zones.

Who the works are meant for

Agriculture and allied activity account for 181 works, of which 52 go to an individual beneficiary. Another 107 works are tagged for Antyodaya and vulnerable households, 68 of them for an individual beneficiary, covering housing, sanitation, energy, irrigation, plantations and livestock shelters. 36 works are tied to Nari Shakti and 36 to Yuva Shakti. The Schedule also writes in accessibility for Divyangjan through stairs and ramps in government buildings, and allows relief and evacuation shelters in border areas.

How a work will be chosen

Every work is to begin from the bottom up, through a Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan cleared by the Gram Sabha, and will then be followed on the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack. The digital trail is meant to bring Central, State and local money together on the same work and to keep the same work from being taken up twice, in line with the goal of a Viksit Bharat by 2047.