UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION OF FUNDS UNDER VB-G RAM G

Q1. Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, the rural employment guarantee scheme is operationalised as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme by which one of the following as its nodal ministry?

  • A. Ministry of Rural Development
  • B. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  • C. Ministry of Panchayati Raj
  • D. Ministry of Labour and Employment

Q2. Under the cost-sharing arrangement of the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, the Central Government bears the largest proportion of programme cost for which category of States?

  • A. North-Eastern and Himalayan States
  • B. All general States and UTs with legislature
  • C. States classified as aspirational under NITI Aayog
  • D. States with the highest rural unemployment

Q3. The VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 is notable as the first full statutory replacement of which one of the following rights-based welfare laws?

  • A. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
  • B. The National Food Security Act, 2013
  • C. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  • D. The Right to Information Act, 2005

Q4. Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, the State-wise normative allocation of funds is determined by which one of the following?

  • A. The Central Government
  • B. The Finance Commission
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. The concerned State Government

Q5. The power of the Central Government to determine State-wise normative allocation of funds under VB-G RAM G is provided under which one of the following?

  • A. Section 22(4)
  • B. Section 6(1)
  • C. Section 3
  • D. Section 27

Q6. The VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 frames rural wage employment as being aligned with which one of the following national visions?

  • A. Viksit Bharat @2047
  • B. Atmanirbhar Bharat
  • C. Make in India
  • D. Amrit Kaal @2030

Q7. Under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, for up to how many days in a year may a State suspend works during peak agricultural periods such as sowing and harvesting?

  • A. 60 days
  • B. 30 days
  • C. 45 days
  • D. 90 days

Q8. What is the highest (most concessional to the State) Centre:State fund-sharing ratio provided anywhere under the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025?

  • A. 90:10
  • B. 100:0 for all special-category States
  • C. 75:25
  • D. 50:50