India Development Programmes

History of Development & Employment Programs in India: at a Glance

1. 1952: Community Development Programme (CDP)

overall development of rural areas and people’s 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.
4. 1965 : Credit Authorization Scheme (CAS)
Involved qualitative credit control of reserve bank of India
5. 1966-67: High yielding variety programme (HYVP)
To increase the productivity of food grains by adopting latest varieties of inputs of crops.
6. 1966-67: Green Revolution:
To Increase productivity. Confined to wheat production.
7. 1969: Rural Electrification Corporation
To provide electricity in rural areas
8. 1972 : Scheme of Discriminatory Interest Rate
To provide loan to the weaker sections of society at a concessional interest rate of 4%
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 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 & financial assistance to marginal farmers
13. 1974-75: Small Farmer Development Scheme SFDS
Technical & financial 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 :
Scheme of Rajasthan, providing economic assistance to poorest 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
26. 1984 : National Fund for Rural Development : To grant 100% tax rebate to donors and
also to provide financial assistance for rural development projects
27. 1985: Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme:
Crop Insurance
28. 1986: Council of Advancement of People’s 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 poor’s
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)
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 office 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 financial 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
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 electrification 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 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