Which of the following statements regarding the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (VB-GRAM) Act is/are correct? 1. It expands the statutory rural wage employment guarantee to 125 days per household. 2. It decentralizes wage determination to individual Gram Panchayats to better match local living costs. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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A. 1 only — Statement 1 is correct as the VB-GRAM Act increases the guaranteed employment days from 100 to 125 per household. Statement 2 is incorrect because the Act actually shifts the focus toward centralized wage determination, moving away from decentralized or highly variable state-level wage fixing.

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