| Community Development Programme (CDP) |
1952 |
Over all development of rural area with people's participation. |
| Intensive Agriculture Development Programme (IADP) |
1960-61 |
To provide loan, seeds, fertilizer tools to the farmers. |
| Intensive Agriculture Area Programme (IAAP) |
1964-65 |
To develop the Special harvests. |
| High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) |
1966-67 |
To increase productivity of food grains by adopting latest varieties of inputs for crops. |
| Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) |
Oct. 1966 |
To arrange for the construction of Hotels and Guest houses at variou splaces of the country. |
| Green Revolution |
1966-67 |
To increase the food grains, specially wheat production (Credit goes to Dr. M.S. Swaminathan in India and Nobel laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug in the world). |
| Nationalisation of 14 Banks |
19 July 1969 |
To provide loans for agriculture, rural development and other priority sectors. |
| Employment Guarantee Scheme of Maharashtra |
1972-73 |
To assist the economically weaker |
| Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) |
1972-73 |
For providing drinking water in the villages |
| Small Farmer Development Agency (SFDA) |
1974-75 |
For technical and financial assistance |
| Command Area Development Programme (CADP) |
1974-75 |
To ensure better and rapid utilisation of irrigation capacities of medium and large projects. |
| Twenty Point Programme (TPP) |
1975 |
Poverty eradication and raising the standard of living. |
| National Institution of Rural Development (NIRD) |
1977 |
Training, investigation and advisory organisation for rural development. |
| Desert Development Programme (DDP) |
1977-78 |
For controlling the desert expasion and maintaining environmental balance. |
| Food for Work Programme (FWP) |
1977-78 |
Providing food grains to labour for the works of development. |
| Antyodaya Yojana |
1977-78 |
To make the poorest families of the village economically independent (only in Rajasthan State). |
| Training Rural Youth for Self- Employment (TRYSEM) |
August 15, 1979 |
Programme of training rural youth for self-employment. |
| Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) |
October 2, 1980 |
All-round development of the rural poor through a programme of asset endowment for self-employment. |
| National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) |
1980 |
To provide profitable employment opportunities to the rural poor. |
| Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) |
September 1982 |
To provide suitable opportunities of self-employment to the women belonging to the rural families who are living below the poverty line. |
| Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) |
August 15, 1993 |
For providing employment to landless farmers and labourers. |
| Self-Employment to the Educated Unemployed Youth (SEEUY) |
1983-84 |
To provide financial and technical assistance for self-employment. |
| Farmer Agriculture Service Centre's (FASC's) |
1983-84 |
To popularise the use of improved agricultural instruments and tool kits. |
| National Fund for Rural Development (NFRD) |
1984 |
To grant 100% tax rebate to donors and also to provide financial assistance for rural development projects. |
| Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India |
March 1985 |
To provide financial assistance to sick and closed industrial units for their reconstruction. |
| Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme |
April 1, 1985 |
For insurance of agricultural crops. |
| Council for Advancement of People's Actionand Rural Technology (CAPART) (H.Q.- New Delhi) |
Sep. 1, 1986 |
To provide assistance for rural prosperity. |
| Self-Employment Programme for the Urban Poor (SEPUP) |
Sep.1986 |
To provide self-employment to urban poor through provision of subsidy and bank credit. |
| Formation of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) |
April 1988 |
To safeguard the interest of investors in capital market and to regulate share market. |
| Jawahar Rozgar Yojana |
April 1, 1989 |
For providing employment to rural unemployed. |
| Nehru Rozgar Yojana |
October 1989 |
For providing employment to urban unemployed. |
| Agriculture and Rural Debt Relief Scheme (ARDRS) |
1990 |
To exempt bank loans upto Rs. 10,000 of rural artisans and weavers. |
| Scheme of Urban Micro Enterprises (SUME) |
1990 |
To assist the urban poor people for small enterprise. |
| 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. |
| Scheme of Housing and and Shelter Upgradation (SIIASU) |
1990 |
To provide employment by means of shelter upgradation in the urban areas where population is between 1 to 20 lakh. |
| Supply of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans |
July 1992 |
To supply modem toolkits to the rural craftsmen except the weavers, tailors, embroiders and tobacco labourers who are living below the poverty line. |
| Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) |
October 2,1993 |
To provide employment of at least 100 days in a year in villages. |
| Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) |
December 23, 1993 |
To sanction Rs. 5 crore per year to every Member of Parliament for various development works in their respective areas through DM of the district. |
| District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) |
1993 |
To provide financial assistance for rural development. |
| Mahila Samridhi Yojana |
October 2, 1993 |
To encourage the rural women to deposit in Post Office Savings Account. |
