PATNA, Dec. 17 -- The Bihar government will have to spend estimated Rs.3,000 crore to Rs.3,500 crore from next fiscal year onwards as state share under the proposed new rural employment scheme -- Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rojgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramim) or VB-G RAM G -- which is set to replace the existing Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

The reason for the outlay is attributed to the new fund sharing provisions under proposed new rural employment scheme for unskilled workers of rural households. In the new fund sharing provisions of VB-G RAM G, the state government would have to bear the cost of wages, material in the 60:40 ratio as against the present system under MGNREGS where the wage bills ...