Union Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan engages with rural people, workers, and labourers at Gram Sabha in Loni Budruk, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra

• Union Minister for Rural Development & Agriculture, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, addressed a special Gram Sabha at Loni Budruk village, Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra to roll out the new Viksit Bharat – G RAM G Act, 2025, a structural overhaul of MGNREGA.
• The Act recasts India's rural employment guarantee architecture — extending guaranteed workdays, fixing wage-payment timelines, mandating gender quotas, and empowering Gram Sabhas as the final decision-maker on village works.
• High-yield topic for UPSC across GS-II (welfare schemes, devolution to PRIs) and GS-III (rural employment, agriculture).