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CURRENT AFFAIRS : DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE VARIOUS WELFARE SCHEMES OF THE GOVT OF INDIA?

The ministries of the Government of India have come up with various schemes from 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	Date of Launch	Sector	Provisions
Atal Pension Yojana	May 9, 2015	Pension	Social Sector Scheme pertaining to Pension Sector
Bachat Lamp Yojana	2009	Electrification	reduce the cost of compact fluorescent lamps
Central Government Health Scheme	1954	Health	comprehensive medical care facilities to Central Government employees and their family members
Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme	2003	Social Justice	Create an enabling environment to ensure equal opportunities, equity, social justice and empowerment of persons with disabilities.
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana	2015	Rural Power Supply	It is a Government of India program aimed at providing 24x7 uninterrupted power supply to all homes in Rural India
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna	2015	Rural Development	It is a Goveronment of India Project to engage rural youth specially BPL and SC/ST segment of population, in gainful employment through skill training programmes.
Digital IndiaProgramme	July 1, 2015	Digitally Empowered Nation	Aims to ensure that government services are available to citizens electronically and people get benefited from the latest information and communication technology
Gramin Bhandaran Yojana	March 31, 2007	Agriculture	Creation of scientific storage capacity with allied facilities in rural areas to meet the requirements of farmers for storing farm produce, processed farm produce and agricultural inputs. Improve their marketability through promotion of grading, standardization and quality control of agricultural produce.
Indira Awaas Yojana	1985	Housing, Rural	Provides financial assistance to rural poor for constructing their houses themselves
Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana	2010	Mother Care	A cash incentive of Rs. 4000 to women (19 years and above) for the first two live births
Integrated Child Development Services	October 2, 1975	Child Development	tackle malnutrition and health problems in children below 6 years of age and their mothers
Integrated Rural Development Program	1978	Rural Development	self-employment program to raise the income-generation capacity of target groups among the poor and The scheme has been merged with another scheme named Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) since 01.04 1999.
Janani Suraksha Yojana	2005	Mother Care	One-time cash incentive to pregnant women for institutional/home births through skilled assistance
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM)	December 3, 2005	Urban Development	a programme meant to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in the cities. To be replaced by Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation.
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya	July 2004	Education	Educational facilities (residential schools) for girls belonging to SC, ST,OBC, minority communities and families below the poverty line(BPL) in Educationally Backward Blocks
INSPIRE Programme			Scholarships for top Science students, Fellowships for pursuing PhD, Research Grants to researchers
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana	1999		Scholarship program to encourage students to take up research careers in the areas of basic sciences, engineering and medicine
Livestock Insurance Scheme (India)		Education	Insurance to cattle and attaining qualitative improvement in livestock and their products.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act	February 6, 2006	Rural Wage Employment	Legal guarantee for one hundred 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. 120 per day in 2009 prices.
Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme	December 23, 1993		Each MP has the choice to suggest to the District Collector for, works to the tune of Rs.5 Crores per annum to be taken up in his/her constituency. The Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament can recommend works in one or more districts in the State from where he/she has been elected.
Midday Meal Scheme	August 15, 1995	Health, Education	Lunch (free of cost) to school-children on all working days
Namami Gange Programme	March 1995	Clean & Protect Ganga	Integrates the efforts to clean and protect the River Ganga in a comprehensive manner
National Literacy Mission Programme	May 5, 1988	Education	Make 80 million adults in the age group of 15 – 35 literate
National Pension Scheme	January 1, 2004	Pension	Contribution based pension system
National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen		Agriculture	Financial assistance to fishers for construction of house, community hall for recreation and common working place and installation of tube-wells for drinking water
National Service Scheme			Personality development through social (or community) service
National Social Assistance Scheme	August 15, 1995	Pension	Public assistance to its citizens in case of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement and in other cases of undeserved want
Pooled Finance Development Fund Scheme
Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana	July 23, 2010	Model Village	Integrated development of Schedule Caste majority villages in four states
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna	April 2015^[13]	SKILL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE SCHEMES	To provide encouragement to youth for development of employable skills by providing monetary rewards by recognition of prior learning or by undergoing training at affiliated centres.
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana^[1]	May 9, 2015	Insurance	Accidental Insurance with a premium of Rs. 12 per year.
Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana	May 9, 2015	Insurance	Life insurance of Rs. 2 lakh with a premium of Rs. 330 per year.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana	August 28, 2014	Financial Inclustion	National Mission for Financial Inclusion to ensure access to financial services, namely Banking Savings & Deposit Accounts, Remittance, Credit, Insurance, Pension in an affordable manner
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana	December 25, 2000	Rural Development	Good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages
Rajiv Awas Yojana	2013	Urban Housing	It envisages a “Slum Free India" with inclusive and equitable cities in which every citizen has access to basic civic infrastructure and social amenities and decent shelter
Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana	April 2005	Rural Electrification	Programme for creation of Rural Electricity Infrastructure & Household Electrification for providing access to electricity to rural households
Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana	August 1, 2007	Agriculture	Achieve 4% annual growth in agriculture through development of Agriculture and its allied sectors during the XI Plan period
Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana	April 1, 2008	Insurance	Health insurance to poor (BPL), Domestic workers, MGNERGA workers, Rikshawpullers, Building and other construction workers, and many other categories as may be identified by the respective states
RNTCP	1997	Health	Tuberculosis control initiative
Saksham or Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Boys	2014	Skill Development	Aims at all-round development of Adolescent Boys and make them self-reliant, gender-sensitive and aware citizens, when they grow up. It cover all adolescent boys (both school going and out of school) in the age-group of 11 to 18 years subdivided into two categories, viz. 11-14 & 14–18 years. In 2014–15, an allocation of Rs. 25 crore is made for the scheme.
Sabla or Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls	2011	Skill Development	Empowering adolescent girls (Age) of 11–18 years with focus on out-of-school girls by improvement in their nutritional and health status and upgrading various skills like home skills, life skills and vocational skills. Merged Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) and Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY).
Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana	September 25, 2001	Rural Self Employment	Providing additional wage employment and food security, alongside creation of durable community assets in rural areas.
Swabhiman	February 15, 2011	Financial Inclusion	To make banking facility available to all citizens and to get 5 crore accounts opened by Mar 2012. Replaced by Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana.
Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana	April 1, 1999	Rural Employment	Bring the assisted poor families above the poverty line by organising them into Self Help Groups (SHGs) through the process of social mobilisation, their training and capacity building and provision of income generating assets through a mix of bank credit and government subsidy.
Swavalamban	September 26, 2010	Pension	pension scheme to the workers in unorganised sector. Any citizen who is not part of any statutory pension scheme of the Government and contributes between Rs. 1000 and Rs. 12000/- per annum, could join the scheme. The Central Government shall contribute Rs. 1000 per annum to such subscribers.
Udisha		Child Care	Training Program for ICDS workers
Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme	June 18, 1997		Opportunity to the income tax/ wealth tax defaulters to disclose their undisclosed income at the prevailing tax rates.
National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)	June 2011^[16]		This scheme will organize rural poor into Self Help Group(SHG) groups and make them capable for self-employment. The idea is to develop better livelihood options for the poor.
National Urban Livelihood Mission(NULM)	24 Sep, 2013		This scheme will reduce poverty of urban poor households specially street vendors who constitute an important segment of urban poor by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities.
HRIDAY – Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana	Jan 2015	Urban Development	The scheme seeks to preserve and rejuvenate the rich cultural heritage of the country.
Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (Girl Child Prosperity Scheme)	22 Jan 2015		The scheme primarily ensures equitable share to a girl child in resources and savings of a family in which she is generally discriminated as against a male child.
Smart Cities Mission	June 25, 2015	Urban Development	To enable better living and drive economic growth stressing on the need for people centric urban planning and development.
Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)	June 25, 2015	Urban Development	To enable better living and drive economic growth stressing on the need for people centric urban planning and development.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)	June 25, 2015	Housing	To enable better living and drive economic growth stressing on the need for people centric urban planning and development.
National Child Labour Projects(NCLP)	launched in 9 districts in 1987 and has been expanded in January 2005 to 250 districts in 21 different states of the country		The objective of this project is to eliminate child labour in hazardous industries by 2010. Under this scheme, the target group is all children below 14 years of age who are working in occupations and processes listed in the Schedule to the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 or occupations and processes that are harmful to the health of the child.
Antyodaya Anna Yojna	25 December 2000		Under the scheme 1 crore of the poorest among the (Below Poverty Line)BPL families covered under the targeted public distribution system are identified. Issue of Ration Cards Following the recognition of Antyodaya families, unique quota cards to be recognized an "Antyodaya Ration Card" must be given to the Antyodaya families by the chosen power. The scheme has been further expanded twice by additional 50 lakh BPL families each in June 2003 and in August 2004,thus covering 2 crore families under the AAY scheme
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana	July 15, 2015	Skill Development	Seeks to provide the institutional capacity to train a minimum 40 crore skilled people by 2022 ^[20]
National Food Security Mission	2007 for 5 years		It launched in 2007 for 5 years to increase production and productivity of wheat, rice and pulses on a sustainable basis so as to ensure food security of the country. The aim is to bridge the yield gap in respect of these crops through dissemination of improved technologies and farm management practices.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana	1 May 2016		Launched to provide free LPG connections to women from below poverty line families.