UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Over 100 Area Officers to be deployed to Support VB–G RAM G Rollout

Q1. Under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, what is the statutory guarantee of wage employment per financial year for every rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work?

  • A. 100 days
  • B. 120 days
  • C. 125 days
  • D. 150 days

Q2. Which one of the following is the nodal Ministry for the implementation of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025?

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

Q3. The Act of Parliament that, on its commencement on 1 July 2026, has repealed and replaced the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 falls under the administrative purview of which one of the following Union Ministries?

  • A. Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • B. Ministry of Panchayati Raj
  • C. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
  • D. Ministry of Rural Development

Q4. In the long title of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 — the statutory successor to MGNREGA, 2005 — the term 'Ajeevika' specifically denotes which one of the following components, the addition of which marks a substantive departure from MGNREGA's mandate?

  • A. Livelihood promotion, expanding the scope beyond pure wage employment to include sustainable livelihood support
  • B. A skill-certification entitlement for every rural household member
  • C. An unemployment allowance payable when work is not provided within 15 days of demand
  • D. A social-audit framework operated through Gram Sabhas

Q5. The deployment of more than 100 'Area Officers' as facilitators and resource persons to States/UTs for the rollout of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 is being undertaken by which one of the following?

  • A. Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development
  • B. Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development
  • C. Ministry of Panchayati Raj
  • D. Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Q6. Officers being deployed as 'Area Officers' by the Department of Rural Development to facilitate the rollout of the VB–G RAM G Act, 2025 from 1 July 2026 are drawn from which one of the following ranks and above?

  • A. Director
  • B. Deputy Secretary
  • C. Joint Secretary
  • D. Additional Secretary

Q7. With reference to the budgetary architecture of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G) for FY 2026–27 as compared to its predecessor framework, consider the following statements: 1. The Central share of ₹95,692.31 crore allocated for FY 2026–27 is the largest-ever Budget Estimate stage allocation for a rural employment programme in India. 2. With the inclusion of the corresponding estimated State share, the total programme outlay for FY 2026–27 is expected to exceed ₹1.51 lakh crore. 3. Under the standard fund-sharing pattern, Union Territories without legislature contribute 40 per cent as State share, in line with the general 60:40 ratio applicable to other States. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. The Central share of ₹95,692.31 crore allocated for FY 2026–27 is the largest-ever Budget Estimate stage allocation for a rural employment programme in India.
  2. With the inclusion of the corresponding estimated State share, the total programme outlay for FY 2026–27 is expected to exceed ₹1.51 lakh crore.
  3. Under the standard fund-sharing pattern, Union Territories without legislature contribute 40 per cent as State share, in line with the general 60:40 ratio applicable to other States.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 2 and 3 only
  • C. 1 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3

Q8. Under the fund-sharing pattern notified for the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G) Act, 2025, which one of the following categories of implementing units receives the HIGHEST proportion of Central funding?

  • A. States with legislature such as Maharashtra and Karnataka
  • B. North-Eastern States such as Assam and Manipur
  • C. Himalayan States such as Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
  • D. Union Territories without legislature such as Ladakh

Q9. The Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, which gives statutory effect to the right to work envisaged in the Directive Principles, is administered at the Union level by which one of the following?

  • A. Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development
  • B. Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development
  • C. Ministry of Panchayati Raj
  • D. Ministry of Labour and Employment

Q10. With reference to the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, the term 'Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack' refers to which one of the following?

  • A. A digital public-goods platform for geo-tagging and real-time monitoring of every rural asset created under the Act
  • B. The aggregated body of public works executed under the Act across its four thematic domains, forming a nationwide rural infrastructure base aligned with Viksit Bharat @2047
  • C. A sovereign rural infrastructure bond programme floated by the Ministry of Finance to finance the enhanced 125-day wage-employment guarantee
  • D. A centralised national register of rural unskilled workers entitled to wage employment under the Act

Q11. With reference to the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025 as compared with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, consider the following statements: 1. The new Act enhances the statutory wage-employment guarantee from 100 days to 125 days per rural household in each financial year. 2. Unlike MGNREGA, the new Act explicitly identifies mitigation of extreme weather events as one of its thematic domains of permissible works, linking rural employment to the Viksit Bharat @2047 vision. 3. The new Act replaces the household-based entitlement framework of MGNREGA with an individual adult-based entitlement to wage employment. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. The new Act enhances the statutory wage-employment guarantee from 100 days to 125 days per rural household in each financial year.
  2. Unlike MGNREGA, the new Act explicitly identifies mitigation of extreme weather events as one of its thematic domains of permissible works, linking rural employment to the Viksit Bharat @2047 vision.
  3. The new Act replaces the household-based entitlement framework of MGNREGA with an individual adult-based entitlement to wage employment.
  • A. 1 only
  • B. 1 and 2 only
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1, 2 and 3