RAS question
The VB-G RAM G Bill guarantees how many days of employment per rural household?
Correct answer: (B) 125 days.
The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household in each financial year.
Explanation
The PIB release on the President's assent to the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 states that the Act enhances the statutory wage employment guarantee to 125 days per financial year for rural households. Its salient-features section makes the entitlement more precise: not less than 125 days of wage employment per rural household in each financial year for households whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work. That is why 125 days is the right figure. The same release also contrasts this with the earlier 100-day entitlement under MGNREGA, so the question is testing the enhanced guarantee rather than the old MGNREGA baseline.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 100 days is the earlier MGNREGA entitlement, while the VB-G RAM G framework raises the statutory guarantee to 125 days.
- (C) 110 days is below the 125-day guarantee stated in the PIB release and is not the enhanced entitlement described for rural households.
- (D) 120 days is close but still short of the statutory figure; the cited release specifies not less than 125 days in each financial year.
Concept
This tests welfare-governance policy under rural employment guarantees, especially the shift from MGNREGA's older entitlement to the new VB-G RAM G figure. RAS often asks such questions because statutory schemes are examined through their headline entitlement, target group, and administrative design.