UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — TRANSITIONING FROM MGNREGS TO VB-G RAM G

Question 1

Upon its commencement, the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 repeals and replaces which one of the following as the principal statutory framework for rural wage employment?

Accepted Answer

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

Answer

The National Food Security Act, 2013

Answer

The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014

Answer

The Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act, 2008

Question 2

Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, a State may notify an aggregated 'pause period' for peak sowing and harvesting seasons not exceeding how many days in a financial year?

Accepted Answer

60 days

Answer

30 days

Answer

45 days

Answer

90 days

Question 3

Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, the 125-day wage-employment guarantee is reckoned with respect to which one of the following as the basic beneficiary unit?

Accepted Answer

Each rural household

Answer

Each adult individual willing to do manual work

Answer

Each Gram Panchayat

Answer

Each below-poverty-line family identified in the SECC

Question 4

Under MGNREGA, the principal authority responsible for planning and executing works at the village level was which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Gram Panchayat

Answer

The District Rural Development Agency

Answer

The Block Development Office

Answer

The Zilla Parishad

Question 5

The detailed transitional rules under Section 37 of the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 are being framed by which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Department of Rural Development

Answer

The Department of Land Resources

Answer

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation

Answer

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Question 6

The implementation, funding releases and evaluation of the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 are administered by which one of the following Union Ministries?

Accepted Answer

The Ministry of Rural Development

Answer

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Answer

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Answer

The Ministry of Labour and Employment

Question 7

With effect from which one of the following dates does the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 commence across all rural areas, on which date MGNREGA, 2005 also stands repealed?

Accepted Answer

1 July 2026

Answer

18 December 2025

Answer

1 April 2026

Answer

1 April 2027

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — TRANSITIONING FROM MGNREGS TO VB-G RAM G

Q1. Upon its commencement, the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 repeals and replaces which one of the following as the principal statutory framework for rural wage employment?

Q2. Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, a State may notify an aggregated 'pause period' for peak sowing and harvesting seasons not exceeding how many days in a financial year?

Q3. Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, the 125-day wage-employment guarantee is reckoned with respect to which one of the following as the basic beneficiary unit?

Q4. Under MGNREGA, the principal authority responsible for planning and executing works at the village level was which one of the following?

Q5. The detailed transitional rules under Section 37 of the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 are being framed by which one of the following?

Q6. The implementation, funding releases and evaluation of the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 are administered by which one of the following Union Ministries?

Q7. With effect from which one of the following dates does the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 commence across all rural areas, on which date MGNREGA, 2005 also stands repealed?