Employment Generation Programmes
S.No.
|
Employment
Generation Programme
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
Employment Guarantee Scheme
of Maharashtra
|
1972
|
To assist the economically weaker
sections of the rural society.
|
2
|
Crash Scheme for Rural
Employmement (CSRE)
|
1972
|
For rural employment
|
3
|
Training Rural Youth for
Self-Employment (TRYSEM)
|
1979
|
Program for Trainingrural
youth for self employment.
|
4
|
Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP)
|
1980
|
All-round development of the rural
poor through a program of asset endowment for self employment.
|
5
|
National Rural Employment
Program (NREP)
|
1980
|
To provide profitable employment
opportunities to the rural poor.
|
6
|
Rural Landless Employment
Guarantee Program (RLEGP)
|
1983
|
For providing employment to
landless farmers and laborers.
|
7
|
Self-employment to the
Educated Unemployed Youth (SEEUY)
|
1983
|
To provide financial and technical
assistance for self-employment.
|
8
|
Self-Employment programme
for Urban Poor (SEPUP)
|
1986
|
To provide self employment to
urban poor through provision of subsidy and bank credit.
|
9
|
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
|
1989
|
For providing employment to rural
unemployed.
|
10
|
Nehru Rozgar Yojana
|
1989
|
For providing employment to urban
unemployed.
|
11
|
Scheme of Urban Wage
Employment (SUWE)
|
1990
|
To provide wages employment after
arranging the basic facilities for poor people in the urban areas where
population is less than one lakh.
|
12
|
Employment Assurance Scheme
(EAS)
|
1993
|
To provide employment of at least
100 days in a year in village.
|
13
|
Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar
Yojana (SJSRY)
|
1997
|
To provide gainful employment to
urban unemployed and under employed poor through self employment or wage
employment.
|
14
|
Swarna Jayanti Gram
Swarozgar Yojana (SYGSY)
|
1999
|
For eliminating rural poverty and
unemployment and promoting self employment.
|
15
|
Jai Prakash Narayan Rojgar
Guarantee Yojana (JPNRGY)
|
Proposed in 2002-03 budget
|
Employment guarantee in most poor
distt.
|
16
|
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme
|
2006
|
To provide atleast 100 days wage
employment in rural areas.
|
17
|
Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar
Yojana
|
2001
|
To provide wage employment and
food security in rural areas and also to create durable economic ans social
assets.
|
18
|
Food for Work Programme
|
2001
|
To give food thrugh wage
employment in the drought affected areas in eight states. Wages are paid by
the state governments partly in cash and partly in foodgrains.
|
19
|
Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)
|
2005
|
To create a right based framework
for wage employment programmes and makes the government legally bound to
provide employment to those who seek it.
|
20
|
Prime Minister’s Employment
Generation Programme (PMEGP)
|
2008
|
To generate employment
opportunities in rural as well as urban areas through setting up of new
self-employment ventures/projects/micro enterprises.
|
Child Welfare Programmes
S.No.
|
Child
Welfare Programmes
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objectives/Description
|
1
|
Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS)
|
1975
|
It is aimed at enhancing the
health, nutrition and learning opportunities of infants, young children (O-6
years) and their mothers.
|
2
|
Creche Scheme for the children of
working mothers
|
2006
|
Overall development of children,
childhood protection, complete immunisation, awareness generation among
parents on malnutrition, health and education.
|
3
|
Reproductive and Child
Health Programme
|
1951
|
To provide quality Integrated and
sustainable Primary Health Care services to the women in the reproductive age
group and young children and special focus on family planning and
Immunisation.
|
4
|
Pulse Polio Immunization
Programme
|
1995
|
To eradicate poliomyelitis (polio)
in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against
polio virus.
|
5
|
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
|
2001
|
All children in school, Education
Guarantee Centre, Alternate School, ' Back-to-School' camp by 2003; all
children complete five years of primary schooling by 2007 ; all children
complete eight years of elementary schooling by 2010 ; focus on elementary
education of satisfactory quality with emphasis on education for life ; bridge
all gender and social category gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at
elementary education level by 2010 ; universal retention by 2010
|
6
|
Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalaya
|
2004
|
To ensure access and quality
education to the girls of disadvantaged groups of society by setting up
residential schools with boarding facilities at elementary level.
|
7
|
Mid-day meal Scheme
|
1995
|
Improving the nutritional status
of children in classes I – VIII in Government, Local Body and Government
aided schools, and EGS and AIE centres.Encouraging poor children, belonging
to disadvantaged sections, to attend school more regularly and help them
concentrate on classroom activities.
Providing nutritional support to children of primary stage in drought-affected areas during summer vacation. |
8
|
Integrated programme for
Street Children
|
1993
|
Provisions for shelter, nutrition,
health care, sanitation and hygiene, safe drinking water, education and
recreational facilities and protection against abuse and exploitation to
destitute and neglected street children.
|
9
|
The National Rural Health
Mission
|
2005
|
Reduction in child and maternal
mortality, universal access to public services for food and nutrition ,
sanitation and hygiene and universal access to public health care services
with emphasis on services addressing women's and children's health universal
immunization, etc.
|
Anti Poverty Programmes
S.No.
|
Anti
Poverty Programmes
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
Antodaya Yojana
|
1977
|
To make the poorest families of
the village economically independent (only in Rajasthan)
|
2
|
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar
Yojana (SGSY)
|
1999
|
Assistance is given to the poor
families living below the poverty line in rural areas for taking up self employment.
|
4
|
Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar
Yojana (SGRY)
|
2001
|
Providing gainful employment for
the rural poor.
|
6
|
Employment Assurance Scheme
|
1993
|
To provide gainful employment
during the lean agricultural season in manual work to all able bodied adults
in rural areas who are in need and desirous of work, but can not find it..
|
7
|
Pradhanmantri Gramodaya
Yojana (PMGY)
|
2000
|
Focus on village level development
in 5 critical areas, i.e. primary health, primary education, housing, rural
roads and drinking water and nutrition with the overall objective of
improving the quality of life of people in rural areas.
|
8
|
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)
|
2006
|
To provide legal guarantee for 100
days of wage employment to every household in the rural areas of the country
each year, To combine the twin goals of providing employment and
asset creation in rural areas |
9
|
Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar
Yojana (SJRY)
|
1997
|
It seeks to provide employment to
the urban unemployed lying below poverty line and educate upto IX standard
through encouraging the setting up of self employment ventures or provision
of wage employment.
|
10
|
Antidaya Anna Yojana
|
2000
|
It aims at providing food
securities to poor families.
|
11
|
National Housing Bank Voluntary
Deposit Scheme
|
1991
|
To utilize black money for
constructing low cost housing for the poor.
|
12
|
Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP)
|
1980
|
All Round development of the rural
poor through a program of asset endowment for self employment.
|
13
|
Development of Women and Chidren
in Rural Areas (DWCRA)
|
1982
|
To provide suitable opportunities
of self employment to the women belonging to the rural families who are
living below the poverty line.
|
14
|
National Social Assistance
Programme
|
1995
|
To assist people living below the
poverty line.
|
15
|
Jan Shree Bima Yojana
|
2000
|
Providing insurance security to
people below poverty line.
|
16
|
Jai Prakash Narayan Rojgar
Guarantee Yojana
|
Proposed in 2002-03 budget
|
Employment Guarantee in most poor
districts.
|
17
|
Shiksha Sahyog Yojana
|
2001
|
Education of Children below
poverty line.
|
Women Empowerment Programmes
S.No.
|
Women
Empowerment Programmes
|
Location
|
Year
Of Estb.
|
1
|
Support to Training and
employment Programme for Women (STEP)
|
2003-04
|
To increase the self-reliance and
autonomy of women by enhancing their productivity and enabling them to take
up income generaion activities.
|
2
|
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK)
|
1993
|
To promote or undertake activities
for the promotion of or to provide credit as an instrument of socio- economic
change and development through the provision of a package of financial and
social development services for the development of women.
|
3
|
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
|
1993
|
To facilitate credit support or
micro-finance to poor
women to start income generating activities such as dairy, agriculture, shop-keeping, vending, handicrafts etc. |
4
|
Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for
Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) – ‘Sabla’
|
2010
|
It aims at empowering Adolescent
girls of 11 to 18 years by improving their nutritional and health status, up
gradation of home skills, life skills and vocational skills.
|
5
|
Central Social Welfare Board
(CSWB)
|
1953
|
To promote social welfare
activities and implementing welfare programmes for women and children through
voluntary organizations.
|
6
|
Rashtriya
Mahila Kosh - (National Credit Fund for Women)
|
1993
|
It extends micro-finance services
through a client friendly and hassle-free loaning mechanism for livelihood
activities, housing, micro-enterprises, family needs, etc to bring about the
socio-economic upliftment of poor women.
|
7
|
Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)
|
----
|
To improve the health and
nutrition status of pregnant, lactating women and infants |
8
|
SwayamSiddha
|
2001
|
At organizing women into Self-Help
Groups to form a strong institutional base.
|
9
|
Short Stay Home for Women and
Girls (SSH)
|
1969
|
To provide
temporary shelter to women and girls who are in social and moral danger due to family problems, mental strain, violence at home, social ostracism, exploitation and other causes. |
10
|
Swadhar
|
1995
|
To support women to become
independent in spirit, in thought, in action and have full control over their
lives rather than be the victim of others actions.
|
11
|
Support to Training and Employment
Programme for Women (STEP)
|
1986
|
To mobilise women in small viable
groups and make facililies available through training and access to credit,
to plovide training for skill upgradation, etc.
|
12
|
Development of Women and Children
in Rural Areas (DWCRA)
|
1982
|
To improve the socio-economic
status of the poor women in
the rural areas through creation of groups of women for income-generating activities on a self-sustaining basis. The |
13
|
Tamil Nadu Corporation for
Development of Women
|
1983
|
Aims at the socio-economic
empowerment of women
|
S.No.
|
Child
Labor Programme
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
Child Labor Eradication
Programme
|
1994
|
To shift child labor from
hazardous industried to schools.
|
2
|
National Authority for the
Elimination of Child Labour (NAECL)
|
1994
|
Laying down the policies and
programs for the elimination of child labour, especially in the hazardous
industries, etc.
|
3
|
National Child Labour
Project Scheme (NCLP)
|
1998
|
Establishment of special schools
for child labour who are withdrawn from work.
|
4
|
Education Department and
District Primary Education Program (DPEP)
|
1994
|
To revitalise the primary
education system and to achieve the objective of universalisation of primary
education for young children.
|
5
|
International Programme for
Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)
|
1991
|
To contribute to the effective
abolition of child labor in India
|
6
|
National Commission for the
Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
|
2007
|
To protect, promote and defend
child rights in the country.
|
7
|
National Policy on Child Labour
|
1987
|
General development programmes
benefiting
children wherever possible. Project-based approach in the areas of high concentration of child labourers. |
Agricultural Development Programmes
S.No.
|
Agricultural
Development Programme
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
Intensive Agriculture
Development Program (IADP)
|
1960
|
To provide loan , seeds ,
fertilizer tools to the farmers.
|
2
|
Intensive Agriculture Area
Program (IAAP)
|
1964
|
To develop the special harvest.
|
3
|
High Yielding Variety
Program (HYVP)
|
1966
|
To increase productivity of
foodgrains by adopting latest varieties of inputs for crops.
|
4
|
Green Revolution
|
1966
|
To increase the foodrains ,
specially food production.
|
5
|
Nationalization of 4 banks
|
1969
|
To provide loans for agriculture ,
rural development and other priority sector.
|
6
|
Marginal Farmer and
Agriculture Labor Agency (MFALA)
|
1973
|
For technical and financial
assistance to marginal and small farmer and agricultural labor.
|
7
|
Small Farmer Development
Agency (SFDA)
|
1974
|
For technical and financial
assistance to small farmers.
|
8
|
Farmer Agriculture Service
Centres (FASC)
|
1983
|
To popularize the use of improved
agricultural instruments and tool kits.
|
9
|
Comprehensive Crop Insurance
Scheme
|
1985
|
For insurance of agricultural
crops.
|
10
|
Agricultural and Rural Debt
Relief Scheme (ARDRS)
|
1990
|
To exempt bank loans upto Rs.
10,000 of rural artisans and weaver.
|
11
|
Intensive Cotton Development
Programme (ICDP)
|
2000
|
To enhance the production, per
unit area through (a) technology transfer, (b) supply of quality seeds, (c)
elevating IPM activities/ and (d) providing adequate and timely supply of
inputs to the farmers .
|
12
|
Minikit Programme for Rice, Wheat
& Coarse Cereals
|
1974
|
To increase the productivity by
popularising the use of newly released hybrid/high yielding varieties and
spread the area coverage under location specific high yielding
varieties/hybrids.
|
13
|
Accelerated Maize Development
Programme (AMDP)
|
1995
|
To increase maize production and
productivity in the country from 10 million tonnes to 11.44 million tonnes
and from 1.5 tonnes/hectare to 1.80 tonnes/hectare respectively upto the
terminal year of 9th Plan i.e. 2001-2002 (revised).
|
14
|
National Pulses Development
Project (NPDP)
|
1986
|
To increase the production of
pulses in the country to achieve self sufficiency.
|
15
|
Oil Palm Development Programme
(OPDP)
|
1992
|
To promote oil palm cultivation in
the country.
|
16
|
National Oilseeds and Vegetable
Oils development Board (NOVOD)
|
1984
|
The main functions of the NOVOD
Board are very comprehensive and cover the entire gamut of activities
associated with the oil seeds and vegetable oil industry including –
production, marketing, trade, storage, processing, research and development,
financing and advisory role to the formulation of integrated policy and
programme of development of oil seeds and vegetable oil.
|
17
|
Coconut Development Board
|
1981
|
To increase production and
productivity of coconut
To bring additional area under coconut in potential non-traditional areas To develop new technologies for product diversification and by-product utilisation To strengthen mechanism for transfer of technologies To elevate the income level of small and marginal farmers engaged in coconut cultivation. To build up sound information basis for coconut industry and market information To generate ample employment opportunities in the rural sector. |
18
|
Watershed Development Council
(WDC)
|
1983
|
Central Sector Scheme(HQ Scheme)
|
S.No.
|
Development
Programmes
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
Housing and Urban
Development Corporation
|
1970
|
Loans for the development of
housing and provision of resources for technical assistance.
|
2
|
Members of Parliament Local
Area Development Scheme (MPLADS)
|
1993
|
To sanction Rs. 1 Crore per year
to every member of Parliament for various development works in their
respective areas through DM districts.
|
3
|
Scheme for Infrastructural
Development in Mega Cities (SIDMC)
|
1993
|
To provide capital through special
institutions for water supply, sewage, , drainage, urban
|
4
|
Scheme of Integrated
Development of Small and Medium Towns
|
Sixth five year plan
|
To provide resources and create
employment in small and medium towns for for prohibiting the migration of
population from rural areas to big cities.
|
5
|
District Rural Development
Agency (DRDA)
|
1993
|
To provide financial assistance
for rural development.
|
6
|
National Slum Development
Programme
|
1996
|
Development of Urban Slums.
|
7
|
Integrated Rural Development
Programme (IRDP)
|
1980
|
All-round development of the rural
poor through a program of asset endowment for self employment.
|
8
|
Development of Women and
Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA)
|
1982
|
To provide suitable opportunities
of self employment to the women belonging to the rural families who are
living below the poverty line.
|
S.No.
|
National
Health Programmes
|
Year
of Beginning
|
Objective/Description
|
1
|
National Cancer Control Programme
|
1975
|
Primary prevention of cancers by
health education regarding
hazards of tobacco consumption and necessity of genital hygiene for prevention of cervical cancer, etc. |
2
|
National Program of Health
Care for the Elderly (NPHCE)
|
2010
|
To provide preventive, curative
and rehabilitative services to the elderly persons at various level of health
care delivery system of the country, etc.
|
3
|
National Program for
Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD)
|
----
|
To prevent the avoidable hearing
loss on account of disease or injury, etc.
|
4
|
District Mental Health
Program (NMHP)
|
1982
|
To ensure availability and
accessibility of minimum mental health care for all in the foreseeable
future, particularly to the most vulnerable and underprivileged sections of
population.
|
5
|
National Cancer Registry Programme
|
1982
|
To provide true information on
cancer prevalence and incidence.
|
6
|
National Tobacco Control Program
|
2007
|
Preventing the initiation of
smoking among young people, educating, motivating and assisting smokers to
quit smoking, etc.
|
7
|
National Leprosy Eradication
Program
|
started in 1955, launched in 1983
|
To arrest the disease activity in
all the known cases of leprosy.
|
8
|
Universal Immunization
Program (UIP)
|
1985
|
To achieve self-sufficiency in
vaccine production and the manufacture of cold-chain equipment for storage
purpose, etc.
|
9
|
National Vector Borne Disease
Control Program
|
----
|
For the prevention and control of
vector borne diseases
|