Punjab Government implements VB GRAM G scheme to provide employment to rural folks
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Chandigarh, June 27, 2026: Punjab Government has implemented VB GRAM G scheme to provide employment to rural folks. Scheme will be applicable from July 1, 2026. Scheme will provide 125 days employment to rural folks. Now funding for this scheme will be in ratio of 60:40 between Centre and the states.
Punjab Government has issued notification to implement the scheme. Earlier a resolution was passed against the scheme in Punjab Assembly.
Red the copy of the Notification by DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT & PANCHAYATS
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT & PANCHAYATS NOTIFICATION The 26th June, 2026 No. 1/51/2018/NC-3/4034-44.- In order to align the Rural Development framework with the national vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 by providing an enhanced statutory wage employment guarantee of one hundred and twenty five (125) days in each financial year to such rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work; and to focus on employment, growth, convergence and saturation, the Government of Punjab is pleased to notify the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) [VB-G RAM G] Scheme, Punjab 2026," under the provisions of the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025. Sd/AJIT BALA JI JOSHI, IAS Administrative Secretary to the Government of Punjab.
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AJIT BALA JI JOSHI, IAS Administrative Secretary to the Government of Punjab