UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Telangana adopts resolution for restoration of MGNREGA
Q1. The Viksit Bharat — Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G) Bill, 2025, which seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, was piloted in the Lok Sabha by which one of the following Union Ministers?
- A. Giriraj Singh, Minister of Rural Development
- B. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of Rural Development
- C. Manohar Lal Khattar, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
- D. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Q2. With reference to how the Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025 differs from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, consider the following statements:
1. The new Act raises the guaranteed wage employment from 100 days to 125 days per rural household per financial year.
2. Unlike MGNREGA, the new Act dispenses with the requirement of paying an unemployment allowance when work is not provided within fifteen days of demand.
3. The new Act requires every State Government to declare in advance a period of up to sixty days in each financial year during which no works will be undertaken.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- The new Act raises the guaranteed wage employment from 100 days to 125 days per rural household per financial year.
- Unlike MGNREGA, the new Act dispenses with the requirement of paying an unemployment allowance when work is not provided within fifteen days of demand.
- The new Act requires every State Government to declare in advance a period of up to sixty days in each financial year during which no works will be undertaken.
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 3 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q3. Under the Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025, the works permissible to be taken up are confined to specified thematic domains. Which of the following are correctly identified as such notified thematic domains?
1. Water security
2. Livelihood-related infrastructure
3. Urban housing for the rural-migrant poor
4. Mitigation of extreme weather events
Which of the above is/are correctly identified?
- Water security
- Livelihood-related infrastructure
- Urban housing for the rural-migrant poor
- Mitigation of extreme weather events
- A. 1 and 3
- B. 2 and 4
- C. 1, 2 and 4
- D. 3 only
Q4. With reference to the Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025, consider the following statements:
1. It guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household per financial year.
2. It prescribes a Centre:State fund-sharing pattern of 60:40 for general (non-NE, non-Himalayan) States.
3. It extends the wage-employment guarantee uniformly to both rural and urban households across India.
4. For the North-eastern States and Himalayan States, the Centre:State sharing pattern is 90:10.
Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?
- It guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household per financial year.
- It prescribes a Centre:State fund-sharing pattern of 60:40 for general (non-NE, non-Himalayan) States.
- It extends the wage-employment guarantee uniformly to both rural and urban households across India.
- For the North-eastern States and Himalayan States, the Centre:State sharing pattern is 90:10.
- A. 1 and 3
- B. 2 and 4
- C. 1, 2 and 4
- D. 3 only
Q5. How many days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year is every eligible rural household entitled to under the Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025, whose restoration to the earlier MGNREGA framework was demanded by the Telangana Legislative Assembly's January 2026 resolution?
- A. 100 days
- B. 120 days
- C. 125 days
- D. 150 days