Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB—G RAM G (विकसित भारत—जी राम जी) Act, 2025.
2. (2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint: Provided that the different dates may be appointed for different States or for different areas in a State and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in such State or, as the case may be, in such area.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "adult" means a person who has completed the eighteenth year of age;
2. (b) "applicant" means the head of a household or any of its other adult members who has applied for employment under the Scheme;
3. (c) "Block" means a community development area within a district comprising a group of Gram Panchayats;
4. (d) "Central Council" means the Central Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Council constituted under section 12;
5. (e) "Centrally Sponsored Scheme" means a scheme in which the Central Government provides full or partial financial assistance and the State Governments undertake its implementation;
6. (f) "District Programme Coordinator" means an officer of the State Government designated as such officer under sub-section (1) of section 17 for the implementation of the Scheme in a district;
7. (g) "household" means the members of a family related to each other by blood, marriage or adoption and normally residing together and sharing meals or holding a common ration card;
8. (h) "implementing agency" includes any department of the Central Government or a State Government, a Zila Parishad, Panchayat at intermediate level, Gram Panchayat or any local authority or the Government undertaking, to undertake the implementation of any work taken up under the Scheme;
   • (i) "intermediate level" means a level between the village and district levels as specified under clause (c) of article 243 to the Constitution of India;
9. (j) "National Level Steering Committee" means a steering committee constituted by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 14;
10. (k) "normative allocation" means the allocation of the fund made by the Central Government to the State;
11. (l) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the term "notify" or "notified", shall be construed accordingly;
12. (m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
13. (n) "Programme Officer" means an officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 18;
14. (o) "rural area" means any area in a State except those areas covered by any urban local body or a Cantonment Board established or constituted under any law for the time being in force;
15. (p) "Schedule" means Schedules appended to this Act;
16. (q) "Scheme" means the Scheme notified by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 3;
17. (r) "State" means a State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and includes a Union territory;
18. (s) "State Council" means the State Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Council constituted under sub-section (1) of section 13;
19. (t) "State Level Steering Committee" means a steering committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 15;
20. (u) "unskilled manual work" means any physical work which any adult person is capable of doing without any skill or special training;
    • (v) "Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack" means the consolidated aggregation comprising proposed works emerging from the Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans aggregated at the District and State levels, and aligned with the four thematic domains of works specified in Schedule I;
21. (w) "Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan" means a future-ready, convergence-based local development plan aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, formulated by the Gram Panchayat through a participatory and evidence-based process, and serving as the basis for identification and prioritisation of works under this Act, as provided in sub-section (3) of section 4;
    • (x) "wage rate" means the wage rate referred to in section 10;
22. (y) "work" means any work undertaken or executed under the Scheme