The Ministry of Rural Development has announced 375 types of works that villages can undertake under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB–G RAM G Act, 2025. This list expands the scope of rural employment guarantee work by 41 percent compared to the previous framework, which allowed only 266 types of works. The new list organises these works into four main categories aligned with rural development priorities.
Key facts
- Total permissible works: 375 (up from 266)
- Water Security works: 128
- Core Rural Infrastructure works: 111
- Livelihood-related Infrastructure works: 98
- Disaster Preparedness works: 38
- Agriculture and allied works tagged: 181
- Works for vulnerable households (Antyodaya): 107
- Works tagged for women (Nari Shakti): 36
- Works tagged for youth (Yuva Shakti): 36
- Individual-beneficiary agriculture works: 52
- Individual-beneficiary vulnerable household works: 68
Water Security pillar
The largest category comprises 128 works focused on securing water resources in rural areas. These include construction of check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes and recharge shafts to improve groundwater. The works also cover rejuvenation of rivers, rivulets and nallahs, reclamation of waterlogged land and renovation of field channels that distribute water to farms. Additionally, villages can now undertake newer interventions such as ice-stupas and artificial glaciers for water storage, along with drip irrigation systems, sprinkler infrastructure, rooftop rainwater harvesting and traditional water-storage structures called tankas.
Core Rural Infrastructure
The second pillar lists 111 works aimed at building essential civic amenities in villages. These include solar street lighting, waste-to-wealth recycling plants, greywater treatment units, segregation sheds and rural libraries. Villages can also construct or strengthen veterinary and health centres, Common Service Centres, multipurpose youth centres and community facilities. The framework permits repair and maintenance of water-supply infrastructure built under the Jal Jeevan Mission, along with creation of rural parks, footpaths and other village-level amenities. Schools can construct additional classrooms and laboratories through this category.
Livelihood-related Infrastructure
This category receives significantly expanded emphasis with 98 permissible works, accounting for 26 percent of the total framework compared to only 1.1 percent under the previous scheme. The works cover agro-processing and value-addition infrastructure such as cleaning, grading and packaging units, cold storage facilities and mini flour mills. Villages can construct market yards, dairy infrastructure, mushroom cultivation sheds, sericulture sheds, poly-houses and aquaculture structures. The framework also provides for infrastructure supporting Self-Help Groups and women’s collectives, including worksheds, SHE Marts and federation buildings, along with training and skill development centres.
Disaster Preparedness and Climate Resilience
For the first time, the rural works framework includes a dedicated category of 38 works focused on strengthening communities against extreme weather. These works include construction of flood relief shelters, retaining walls and embankment strengthening. Villages can undertake post-disaster restoration of rural roads and community assets, and forest-fire management measures such as fire lines and fuel-buffer zones. This category targets protection against floods, cyclones, storms, droughts, landslides and forest fires.
Focus on specific groups
The new framework explicitly prioritises farmers, vulnerable households, women and rural youth. Among the 181 agriculture and allied works, 52 are individual-beneficiary schemes covering water, land, plantation, livestock and productive assets that directly support farmers. For vulnerable households, 107 works are tagged under Antyodaya category, including 68 individual-beneficiary works covering housing, sanitation, energy, irrigation and household-level assets. The framework includes 36 works related to women’s collectives and 36 works for youth centres and youth-linked infrastructure. Provisions for disability access include construction of stairs and ramps in government buildings. Border areas get priority for emergency evacuation and relief shelters.
Planning and implementation process
Works will originate through a bottom-up, decentralized planning process. Each village must prepare a Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan based on local needs and seek approval from the Gram Sabha, the village assembly. All works will be tracked through the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack, a digital system that will help coordinate investments across Central, State and local schemes while preventing duplication of effort.
What this means for you
If you live in a village, your Gram Panchayat now has a much wider range of works to choose from when planning rural employment under VB–G RAM G. The expanded list means greater chances that works matching your village’s specific needs—whether water conservation, livestock support, skill development or disaster protection—will be available. Farmers can access individual-beneficiary schemes for productive assets, and women in Self-Help Groups gain dedicated infrastructure options. Youth have more opportunities through dedicated skill and enterprise centres.