Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY):
1. Launched in 2000.
2. Under ministry of Rural development
3. It is a nationwide plan to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages of more than 500 persons in the rural areas (250 persons in the hilly and desert areas).
4. It is a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
· Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY):
1. Launched in 2005.
2. Under ministry of Power.
3. Under the programme, 90% grant is provided by Govt. of India and 10% as loan by Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) to the State Governments.
4. All the BPL families are eligible for free connections under the scheme.
· Indira Awaas Yojana(IAY):
1. Launched during 1985-86 as a sub-scheme and delinked from the Jawahar rojgar yojana (JRY) and has been made an independent scheme with effect from January 1, 1996.
2. Under Ministry of Rural Development
3. To provide grant for construction of houses to members of Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes.
4. Funding is shared between the Centre & State in the ratio of 75:25.
· Bharat Nirman:
1. Launched in 2005 for Investing 1, 74, 000 crore in next four year for building rural infrastructure.
2. Phase I - 2005-09 and Phase II - 2009-12.
3. Under Ministry of Rural Development
4. Bharat Nirman comprises of six components:
a) Water Supply-- Cover approximately 55 thousand uncovered habitations and provide safe drinking water to approximately 2.16 lakh villages affected by poor water quality
b) Housing-- Provide additional 1.2 crore houses at the rate of 24 lakh houses each year to be built by funds allocated to the homeless through Panchayats
c) Telecommunication and Information Technology -- Increase rural tele-density to 40% and provide broadband connectivity and Bharat Nirman Seva Kendras to all 2.5 lakh Panchayats
d) Roads-- Provide road connections to remaining 23,000 villages approximately with population of 1000 or 500 in case of hilly or tribal areas
e) Electrification-- Provide electricity to remaining 40,000 villages approximately and connections to about 1.75 crore poor households
f) Irrigation -- 6.5 million hectares brought under assured irrigation till 2009. Remaining 3.5 lakh hectares to be completed by 2012
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana(RGVY) & Indira Awas Yojana (IWY) come under Bharat Nirman.
· Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana(PMAGY):
1. Launched in the Union Budget 2009-10 by the Union Government for developing those 44,000 villages which have ST population more than 50%. But on a trial basis it is started in only 1,000 villages.
2. If the pilot scheme is successful the scheme will be expanded to remaining villages.
· National Rural Health Mission (NRHM):
1. Launched in 2005 till 2012.
2. Under ministry of health and family welfare.
3. The NRHM covers the entire country, with special focus on 18 States.
· Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA):
1. ‘ASHA’ or Accredited Social Health Activist is a trained female person appointed on 1000 population to provide basic health facilities under National Rural Health Activist.
2. ASHA must primarily be a 8th class pass woman resident of the village – married/ widowed/ divorced, preferably in the age group of 25 to 45 years.
· National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA):
1. Act came in 2005 and was launched on February 2, 2006 from Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh.
2. Under Ministry of rural development
3. The scheme provides a legal guarantee for 100 days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage of Rs.100 per (Budget – 2009-10).
4. Around one-third work force must be women.
5. It has been renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on 2nd October, 2009.
6. From 1 January 2011 Wages has been linked with Consumer Price Index – Agriculture Labour (CPI-AL).
· Sarva Siksha Abhiyan(SSA):
1. Launched in 2001.
2. Under Ministry of Human Resource Development.
3. For providing 8th class education to all student who comes in 6 to 14 age group by 2010.
· Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA):
1. Under Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
2. Announced in 2007 and it is proposed to implement during 11th Five Year plan. In Jan 2009 CCEA (Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) approved the implementation
3. Rs.20, 120 crore has been allocated for the Scheme during the 11th Five Year Plan.
4. The goal of RMSA is to make secondary education to all young students in the age group 15-16 years (classes IX and X). The major target of the scheme is (a) Universal access of Secondary level education to all students in the age group 15-16 years by 2015 by providing a secondary school within 5 kilometers of any habitation and a higher secondary school within 7 kilometer of any habitation and (b) Universal retention by 2020.
· Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY):
1. Launched as an integrated programme for self-employment of the rural poor with effect from 1 April 1999.
2. Under Ministry of Rural Development.
3. IRDP, TRYSEM, DWCRA, SITRA and GKY are merged in SGSY.
4. Implemented with help of Self- Help Group (SHG). A SHG may generally consist of 10-20 persons.
5. It is financed on 75:25 cost-sharing basis between the Centre and the states
6. In Union Budget 2009-10, The Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) restructured as National Rural Livelihood Mission to make it universal in application, focused in approach and time bound for poverty eradication by 2014-15.
· Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY):
1. Launched in 2007.
2. Under Ministry of Labour and Employment.
3. Objective is to provide insurance cover to BPL households of unorganized sector from major health shocks that involve hospitalization.
4. In the Union Budget 2009-10, It is proposed that All BPL families to be covered under this scheme.
· Rajiv Awas Yojana:
1. It is a new scheme announced in the Union Budget 2009-10 for making slum-free India in five years.
2. Under Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation.
3. Rajiv Awas Yojana comes under JNNURM on the lines of Indira Awas Yojana for rural poor.
· Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNUM):
1. Launched on 2005
2. Under Ministry of Urban Development.
3. For development of 63 identified cities.
4. National Steering Group chaired by urban development minister
5. It comprises two Sub-Missions:
a) Urban Infrastructure and Governance (UIG)
b) Basic Services to the Urban Poor Urban (BSUP)
· Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY):
1. Launched in 1997.
2. Under Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment.
3. It is a unified Centrally Sponsored Scheme specially for Urban Poor after merging Nehru Rojgar Yojana (NRY), Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP) and Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP).
4. Funding pattern of Centre and State in 75:25 Basis.
· Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana:
1. Under Ministry of Agriculture
2. Launched by Govt. of India during 2007-08 to incentives states to draw up plans for their agriculture sector.
3. The fund has been provided to the State as 100% Grant.
4. The RKVY aims at achieving 4% annual growth in the agriculture sector during the XI Plan period.
· National Social Assistance Programme:
1. The programme was launched with effect from 15th August 1985.
2. Centrally Sponsored Programme under which 100 percent Central assistance is made available to the State/UT.
3. Under Ministry of Rural Development but now NSAP is transferred to the State Plan along with the Annapurna Scheme from 2002-03.
4. Under this programme three sub-schemes are under implementation. They are.
a) National Old Age Pension scheme (NOAP)
b) National Family Benefit Scheme (NEBS)
c) National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS)
· National Old Age pension (NOAP):
1. Old person above 65 Years. Physically Handicapped persons and Leprosy destitute (Irrespective of Age) who comes under Below Poverty line.
2. The National Old Age Pension Scheme has been renamed as Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOPS) and formally launched on 19th November, 2007.
3. The central contribution of pension under the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) is Rs. 200/- per month per beneficiary and the State Governments may contribute over and above to this amount. At present old age beneficiaries are getting anywhere between Rs. 200/- to Rs. 1000/- depending on the State Contribution.
· National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS)
1. Under this scheme, in the death of primary breadwinner (Age 18-65 years), the head of household is untitled to get the benefit of Rs.10000/- in case normal deaths.
· Annapurna Scheme
1. Launched on1st April, 2000.
2. For providing food security to those Senior Citizens (above 65 years) who though eligible have remained uncovered under the National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS).
3. Under the Annapurna Scheme, 10 Kg. of food grains per month are to be provided 'free of cost' to the Beneficiary.
4. From 2002-03, it has been transferred to State Plan along with the National Social Assistance Programme comprising the National Old Age Pension Scheme and the National Family Benefit Scheme.
· National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS):-
1. Under the scheme, lump sum cash assistance of Rs. 500/- per pregnancy was provided as a maternity benefit to women (Minimum age 19 years) of BPL households up to 2 live births.
2. Two new schemes have been introduced in the Interim Budget 2009-10:
a. 'Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme' to provide pension of Rs.200 to widows between age groups of 40-64 years and
b. 'Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme' to provide pension for severely disabled persons.
· Aam Admi Bima Yojna (AABY):
1. Launched in 2nd October 2007.
2. It is an Insurance Scheme which covers the death and permanent disability for the benefit of rural landless households between the age group of 18 to 59 years.
3. Implemented through the LIC of India and inter alias.
· Antyodaya Anna yojana
1. 25th December,2000
2. BPL families in Rural Area and urban area
3. Food grains 25 Kg per family per month @ Rs.2/- per Kg for wheat and Rs. 3/- per Kg for rice. This quantity has been enhanced from 25 kg to 35 kg from 1 April 2002.
4. Under the expanded Antyodaya Anna Yojna, exclusive AAY cards are also issued to the Senior Citizens who have no regular means of subsistence or societal support, widows and families headed by widows, terminally ill and physically handicapped even if they are not in possession of any APL or BPL card.
· Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
1. Launched in 2001 by merging the on-going schemes of EAS and the JGSY
2. Objective of providing additional wage employment and food security, alongside creation of durable community assets in rural areas.
3. The programme is self-targeting in nature with special emphasis on women, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
· Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment (TRYSEM)
1. Initiated in 1979.
2. It is a component of IRDP, aims to providing basic technical and entrepreneurial skills to the rural poor in the age group of 18 to 35 years to enable them to take up income generating activities.
3. The scheme had been merged into Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) in 1999.
· Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
1. Launched in 1978 and extended throughout India by 1980
2. It is a self-employment program intended to raise the income-generation capacity of target groups among the poor in rural areas. Assistance is provided in the form of subsidy and bank credit.
3. Scheme is merged with another Scheme named swarnjayanti gram swarozgar yojana (SGSY) since 01.04.1999.
· Janani Suraksha Yojana
1. Launched in 2003
2. Centrally sponsored scheme aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality rates and increasing institutional deliveries in below poverty line (BPL) families above 19 years of age and up to two live births.
3. It falls under the overall umbrella of National Rural Health Mission.
· National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS)
1. Provision for the payment of Rs. 500 per pregnancy to women belonging to poor households for pre-natal and post-natal maternity care upto first two live births.
· Mahila Samridhi Yojna
1. Started on 2 October 1993.
2. Under this plan, the rural women of 18 years of above age can open their saving account in the rural post office of their own area with a minimum Rs. 4 or its multiplier
· National Food Security Mission (NFSM)
1. Lunched in 2007.
2. Centrally sponsored scheme
3. Objectives of this scheme is to increase production of wheat, rice and pulses through area expansion and productivity enhancement.
· Saakshar Bharat
1. Launched on 8 September 2009
2. It aims to recast India's National Literacy Mission to focus on literacy of women, which is expected to increase the literate population by 70 million adults, including 60 million women.
· National Livelihood Mission
1. Started in 2009-10
2. To make the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna more effective government has decided to restructure the scheme under a new name National Livelihood Mission.
3. To provide self-employment in the rural areas by bringing each household below the poverty line under the net of self-help group (SHG).
· Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana(RGGVY)
1. Launched in 2005
2. Objective of providing access to electricity to all households and improving rural electricity infrastructure in entire country.
· Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission
1. Launched in 1986. It was also called the National Drinking Water Mission (NDWM). The NDWM was renamed Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water mission (RGNDWM) in 1991.
2. The main aim of the scheme is to provide drinking water to the non covered/ partially covered habitations
· Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme
1. Launched on 2nd October 1975
2. To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years.
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