{
  "id": 4024465,
  "title": "57 lakh active workers await e-KYC under VB GRAM G",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/57-lakh-active-workers-await-e-kyc-under-vb-gram-g",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T19:48:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/two-months-into-vb-g-ram-g-e-kyc-pending-for-57-lakh-active-workers/article71401092.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The e-KYC verification rate for registered workers in the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (VB G RAM G) is currently at 71%, two months after its launch. The government had promised that workers with e-KYC verified under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) would be eligible for work under VB G RAM G. Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan assured that existing e-KYC-verified job cards would remain valid until new Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Cards are issued. However, only 57 lakh workers are still awaiting e-KYC verification. The Ministry has made e-KYC verification a prerequisite for availing work under VB G RAM G, with exceptions granted in a few cases. The delay in e-KYC verification is concerning, as only 7.67 crore person-days were generated under VB G RAM G in July, 49.94% lower than the 15.33 crore person-days under MGNREGS in the same month last year. State governments were instructed to complete e-KYC verification within a week of the new system's rollout, but the target was not met by February. Tamil Nadu has the highest e-KYC rate, at 99.32% among active workers and 84.89% among all registered workers, followed by Rajasthan at 95.66% and 69.45%, Uttar Pradesh at 94.21% and 58.89%, Andhra Pradesh at 90.4% and 82.32%, and West Bengal at 97.3% and 85.49%. Bihar has the lowest e-KYC rate among active workers at 89.19% and 58.05% among all registered workers.",
  "summary": "Centre had earlier assured that ‘existing e-KYC verified job cards will remain valid until issuance of the new Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Cards’; States repeatedly missed e-KYC verification deadlines",
  "key_points": [
    "71% e-KYC verification rate for VB G RAM G registered workers.",
    "57 lakh workers still awaiting e-KYC verification.",
    "Tamil Nadu leads with 99.32% e-KYC verification rate."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}