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List of Government Programs & Various Schemes of India

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1. 1952: Community Development Programme (CDP)

overall development of rural areas and peoples participation.

2. 1960-61: Intensive Agriculture Development program (IADP)
To provide loan for seeds and fertilizers to farmers
3. 1964-65: Intensive Agriculture Area programme (IAAP)
To develop special harvest in agriculture area.

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4. 1965 : Credit Authorization Scheme (CAS)

March 2016 |

Involved qualitative credit control of reserve bank of India

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5. 1966-67: High yielding variety programme (HYVP)

To increase the productivity of food grains by adopting latest

December 2015 |

varieties of inputs of crops.

November 2015 |

6. 1966-67: Green Revolution:

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7. 1969: Rural Electri cation Corporation

To provide electricity in rural areas
8. 1972 : Scheme of Discriminatory Interest Rate

July 2015 |

To provide loan to the weaker sections of society at a concessional

June 2015 |
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To Increase productivity. Con ned to wheat production.

interest rate of 4%
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9. 1972-73 : Accelerated Rural water Supply Programme (ARWSP)

Providing drinking water in villages
10. 1973: Drought Prone Area Programme:

Protection from drought by achieving environement balace and by

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developing ground water

11. 1973: Crash Scheme for Rural Employment CSRE
For rural employment
12. 1973-74 : Marginal Farmer and Agriculture Labor Agency (MFALA)
Technical & nancial assistance to marginal farmers
13. 1974-75: Small Farmer Development Scheme SFDS
Technical & nancial assistance to small farmers
14. 1975: Command Area Development Programme: (CADP)
Better utilization of irrigational capacities
15. 1975: Twenty Point Programme ( TPP)
Poverty eradication and an overall objective of raising the level living
16. 1977: National Institution of Rural Development
Training, investigation and advisory for rural development
17. 1977-78 : Desert Development Programme: (DDP)

To control the desert expansion by maintaining environment balance

18. 1977-78: Food For Work Programme:
providing food grains to labor
19. 1977-78 : Antyodaya Yojna :

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families

20. 1979 : Training Rural Youth for Self Employment TRYSEM

(launched on 15th August)
educational and vocational training

21. 1980 : Integrated Rural Development Programme :IRDP (launched

on October 2, 1980)
overall development of rural poor
22. 1980 : National Rural Development programme NREP
employment for rural manforce
23. 1982 : Development of Women & Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)

sustainable opportunities of self employment to the women

belonging to the rural families who are living below the poverty line.

24. 1983 : Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)

(Launched on August 15)
employment to landless farmers and laborers
25. 1983-84: Farmers Agriculture Service Centers FASCs
Tell the people use of improved instruments of agriculture
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26. 1984 : National Fund for Rural Development : To grant 100% tax
rebate to donors and also to provide

nancial assistance for rural

development projects
27. 1985: Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme:
Crop Insurance

28. 1986: Council of Advancement of Peoples Action & Rural

Technology (CAPART)
Assistance to rural people
29. 1986: Self Employment Programme for the Poor SEPUP
Self employment through credit and subsidy
30. 1986: National Drinking Water Mission:

For rural drinking water renamed and upgraded to Rajiv Gandhi

National Drinking Water Mission in 1991.
31. 1988: Service Area Account
Rural Credit
32. 1989: Jawahar Rozgar Yojna : JRY
Employment to rural unemployed
33. 1989: Nehru Rozgar Yojna NRY
Employment to Urban unemployed
34. 1990: Agriculture & Rural Debt Relief Scheme: ARDRS
Exempt Bank loans up to Rs. 10000 for rural artisans and weavers
35. 1990: Scheme for Urban Micro Enterprises SUME
Assist urban small entrepreneurs
36. 1990: Scheme of Urban wage Employment SUWE
Scheme for urban poors
37. 1990: Scheme of Housing and Shelter Upgradation (SHASU)
Providing employment by shelter Upgradation
38. 1991: National Housing Bank Voluntary Deposit Scheme
Using black money by constructing low cost housing for the poor.
39. 1992: National Renewal Fund
This scheme was for the employees of the public sector

40. 1993: Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) (Launched on October,

2)
Employment of at least 100 days in a year in villages

41. 1993: Members of parliament Local Area Development Scheme

MPLADS (December 23, 1993)
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Sanctioned 1 crore per year for development works

42. 1994: Scheme for Infrastructural Development in Mega Cities :

SIDMC
Water

supply,

sewage,

drainage,

urban

transportation,

land

development and improvement slums projects in metro cities

43. 1993: District Rural Development Agency DRDA
Financial assistance to rural people by district level authority
44. 1993 : Mahila Samridhi Yojna (October 2, 1993)
Encourage rural women to deposit in Post of ce schems
45. 1994 : Child labor Eradication Scheme
Shift child labour from hazardous industries to schools
46. 1995:

prime

Minister

Integrated

Urban

Poverty

Eradication

programme PMIUPEP
To eradicate urban poverty
47. 1995 : Mid day Meal Scheme:

Nutrition to students in primary schools to improve enrolment,

retention and attendence
48. 1996: Group Life Insurance Scheme for Rural Areas
Insurance in rural area for low premium
49. 1995: national Social Assistance programme:
Assist BPL people.
50. 1997-98; Ganga Kalyan Yojna
Provide

nancial assistance to farmers for exploring ground water

resources
51. 1997 Kastoorba Gandhi Education Scheme: (15 August 1997)
Establish girls schools in low female literacy areas (district level)
52. 1997: Swaran Jayanto Shahari Rojgar Yojna:
Urban employment
53. 1998: Bhagya Shree Bal Kalyan Policy
Upliftment of female childs
54. March 1999 : Annapurna Yojna
10 kgs food grains to elderly people
55. April 1999: Swaran Jayanto Gram Swarojgar Yojna
Self employment in rural areas
56. April 1999: Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojna
Village infrastructure
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57. August 2000 : Jan Shree Bima Yojna

Insurance for BPL people
58. 2000 : Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojna
Basic needs of rural people
59. December 25, 2000 : Antyodaya Anna Yojna
To provide food security to poor
60. December 25, 2000 : Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna:
Connect all villages with nearest pukka road.
61. September 2001: Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna
Employment and food security to rural people
62. December 2001: Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojna VAMBAY
Slum houses in urban areas
63. 2003: Universal health Insurance Scheme:
Health insurance for Rural people
64. 2004: Vande mataram Scheme VMS
Initiative of public Private partnership during pregnecy check up.
65. 2004: National Food for Work programme
Supplementary wage as foodgrains for work
66. 2004: Kastoorba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya

Setting up residential schools at upper primary levels for girls

belonging to predominantly OBC, SC & ST
67. 2005: Janani Suraksha Yojna
Providing care to pregnant women
68. 2005, Dec. 16 : Bharat Nirman

Development of India through irrigation, Water supply, Housing,

Road, Telephone and electricity
69. 2005: National Rural Health Mission:
Accessible, affordable, accountable, quality health survices to the
porest of the poor on remotest areas of the country.
70. 2005: Rajeev Gandhi Grameen Vidyuti Karan Yojna:

Extending electri cation of all villages and habitations and ensuring

electricity to every household.

71. 2005: Jawahar Lal Nehru national Urban Renewal Mission:

(JNNURM)
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72. 2006: February 2 : National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

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NREGS
100 days wage employment for development works in rural areas.
73. 2007: Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojna :

Health insurance to all workers in unorganized area below poverty

line.
74. 2007: Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna

Insurance cover to the head of the family of rural landless households

in the country.
75. 2009: Rajiv Awas Yojna
To make India slum free in 5 years
Which scheme merged with which?
1. National Food for Work program was merged with NREGA
2. Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojna merged with NREGA

3. Intesi ed Jawhar Rozgar Yojna 1993 was merged with Employment

Assurance Scheme 1996 which was later merged with Sampoorna

grameen Rozgar Yojna 2001.
4. IRDP , TRYSEM, DWCRA, Million Wells Scheme, SITRA & Ganga
kalian Yojna merged with Swaran jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna.

5. Rural Landless Employment Guarantee programme merged with

Jawahar Rojgar Yojna which was replaced by Jawahar Gram Samridhi

Yojna (1999) and Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojna was merged with
Sampoorna grameen Rojgar Yojna (2001)

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