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Funds for two job schemes
Mint Chennai
|February 02, 2026
The Union budget for FY27 has allocated a total of ₹1.26 trillion for the new and existing rural jobs guarantee schemes.
Of this, ₹95,692 crore has been earmarked for the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G) scheme, while the government has set aside ₹30,000 crore for the outgoing Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). In the FY26 budget, MGNREGA was allocated ₹86,000 crore.
Mint had reported on 21 January that the government was mulling dual allocation for the two schemes in the transition year.
The VB-G RAM G scheme, to be notified by the Centre, will give states six months to transition from the two-decade-old MGNREGA. Till then, both will operate as usual, necessitating separate allocations, rural development and agriculture and farmers' welfare minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told Mint.
This story is from the February 02, 2026 edition of Mint Chennai.
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