List of government schemes in India

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The ministries of Government of India had came up with various schemes time to time. These
schemes could be either Central, State specific or joint collaboration between the Centre and the
States. They are detailed below:

Scheme Ministry Launched on Outlay/Status Provisions

(posthumously awarded)death and

Aam Aadmi Bima
disability insurance for rural landless
Yojana
households

Bachat Lamp reduce the cost of compact

MoP
Yojna fluorescent lamps

Central comprehensive medical care facilities

Government MoHFW 1954 to Central Government employees
Health Scheme and their family members

Deendayal Create an enabling environment to

Disabled ensure equal opportunities, equity,
MoSJE 2003
Rehabilitation social justice and empowerment of
Scheme persons with disabilities.

Creation of scientific storage capacity

with allied facilities in rural areas to
meet the requirements of farmers
for storing farm produce, processed
Gramin March 31,
MoA farm produce and agricultural inputs.
Bhandaran Yojna 2007
Improve their marketability through
promotion of grading,
standardization and quality control
of agricultural produce.

Indira Awaas
MoRD 1985 Housing for the rural poor
Yojana

Indira Gandhi A cash incentive of Rs. 4000 to

Matritva Sahyog MoWCD 2010 women (19 years and above) for the
Yojana first two live births
Scheme Ministry Launched on Outlay/Status Provisions

Integrated Child tackle malnutrition and health

October 2,
Development MoWCD problems in children below 6 years
1975
Services of age and their mothers

Integrated Rural self-employment program to raise

Development MoRD 1978 the income-generation capacity of
Program target groups among the poor

One-time cash incentive to pregnant

Janani Suraksha
MoHFW 2005 women for institutional/home births
Yojana
through skilled assistance

Educational facilities (residential

Kasturba Gandhi
MoHRD
Balika Vidyalaya
schools) for girls belonging
July 2004 to SC, ST, OBC, minority communities
and families below the poverty line
in Educationally Backward Blocks

Scholarship program to encourage

Kishore Vaigyanik students to take up research careers
MoST 1999
Protsahan Yojana in the areas of basic sciences,
engineering and medicine

Livestock Insurance to cattle and attaining

Insurance MoA qualitative improvement in livestock
Scheme (India) and their products.

Legal guarantee for one hundred

days of employment in every
Mahatma Gandhi
financial year to adult members of
National Rural August 25, Rs. 40,000 crore
MoRD any rural household willing to do
Employment 2005 in 201011
public work-related unskilled manual
Guarantee Act
work at the statutory minimum wage
of Rs. 120 per day in 2009 prices.

Members of MoSPI December Each MP has the choice to suggest to

Parliament Local 23, 1993 the District Collector for, works to
Area the tune of Rs.5 Crores per annum to
Development be taken up in his/her constituency.
Scheme The Rajya Sabha Member of
Parliament can recommend works in
one or more districts in the State
from where he/she has been
Scheme Ministry Launched on Outlay/Status Provisions

elected.

Midday Meal August 15, Lunch (free of cost) to school-

MoHRD
Scheme 1995 children on all working days

National Literacy
Make 80 million adults in the age
Mission MoHRD May 5, 1988
group of 15 - 35 literate
Programme

National Pension January 1,

Contribution based pension system
Scheme 2004

Financial assistance to fishers for

National Scheme construction of house, community
Closed on January
on Welfare of MoA hall for recreation and common
13, 2012
Fishermen working place and installation of
tube-wells for drinking water

National Service Personality development through

MoYAS
Scheme social (or community) service

Public assistance to its citizens in

National Social
August 15, case of unemployment, old age,
Assistance MoRD
1995 sickness and disablement and in
Scheme
other cases of undeserved want

Pooled Finance
Development
Fund Scheme

Pradhan Mantri
Integrated development of Schedule
Adarsh Gram MoRD July 23, 2010
Caste majority villages in four states
Yojana

Pradhan Mantri
December Good all-weather road connectivity
Gram Sadak MoRD
25, 2000 to unconnected villages
Yojana

Achieve 4% annual growth in

Rashtriya Krishi August 1, agriculture through development of
MoA
Vikas Yojana 2007 Agriculture and its allied sectors
during the XI Plan period
Scheme Ministry Launched on Outlay/Status Provisions

Health insurance to poor (BPL),

Domestic workers, MGNERGA
Rashtriya
workers, Rikshawpullers, Building
Swasthya Bima MoLE April 1, 2008
and other construction workers, and
Yojana
many other categories as may be
identified by the respective states

RNTCP MoHFW 1997 Tuberculosis control initiative

Empowering adolescent girls (AGs) of

1118 years with focus on out-of-
Sabla or Rajiv school girls by improvement in their
Gandhi Scheme nutritional and health status and
March 8,
for MWCD upgrading various skills like home
2011
Empowerment of skills, life skills and vocational skills.
Adolescent Girls Merged Nutrition Programme for
Adolescent Girls (NPAG) and Kishori
Shakti Yojana (KSY).

Providing additional wage

Sampoorna
September employment and food security,
Grameen Rozgar MoRD
25, 2001 alongside creation of durable
Yojana
community assets in rural areas.

To make banking facility available to

February 15,
Swabhiman MoF all citizens and to get 5 crore
2011
accounts opened by Mar 2012

Bring the assisted poor families

above the poverty line by organising
them into Self Help Groups (SHGs)
Swarnajayanti through the process of social
Gram Swarozgar MoRD April 1, 1999 mobilisation, their training and
Yojana capacity building and provision of
income generating assets through a
mix of bank credit and government
subsidy.

Swavalamban MoF September pension scheme to the workers in

26, 2010 unorganised sector. Any citizen who
is not part of any statutory pension
scheme of the Government and
contributes between Rs. 1000 and
Scheme Ministry Launched on Outlay/Status Provisions

Rs. 12000/- per annum, could join

the scheme. The Central
Government shall contribute Rs.
1000 per annum to such subscribers.

nationwide training component of

the World Bank (External website
that opens in a new window)
assisted Women and Child
Development Project (External
website that opens in a new
Udisha MoWCD
window). Udisha has been cleared
with an outlay of about Rs.600 crores
for five years. UNICEF is also a
technical collaborator in the Project.
The programmes aims to train child
care workers across the country.

Opportunity to the income tax/

Voluntary
Closed on 31 wealth tax defaulters to disclose
Disclosure of June 18, 1997
December 1998 their undisclosed income at the
Income Scheme
prevailing tax rates.

This scheme will organize rural poor

Ministry of
National Rural into SHG groups and make them
Rural
Livelihood June 2011[1] $ 5.1 Billion[1] capable for self employment. The
Development
Mission (NRLM) idea is to developing better
(MoRD)
livelihood options for the poor.