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High Yielding Variety Program ( HYVP )	1966 - 67	To increase productivity of food - grains adopting latest varieties of inputs for crops.
Indian Tourism Development Corporation ( ITDC )	October 1966	To arrange for the construction of Hotels and Guest houses at various places of the country.
Green Revolution	1966 - 67	To increase the food - grains, especially wheat production.
Nationalization of 14 Banks	July 1969	To provide loans for agriculture, rural development and other priority sectors.
Rural Electrification Corporation	July 1969	Electrification in Rural Areas
Housing and Urban Development Corporation	April 1970	Loans for the development of housing and provision of resources for technical assistant
Scheme of Discriminatory Interest Rate	April 1972	To provide loan to the weaker sections of the society at a concessional interest rate of 4%
Employment Guarantee Scheme of Maharashtra	1972 - 73	To assist the economically weaker sections of the rural society
Accelerated Rural Water Supply Program ( ARWSP )	1972 - 73	For providing drinking water in the villages
Drought - Prone Area Program ( DPAP )	1973	To try an expedient for protection from drought by achieving environmental balance and by developing the ground water
Crash Scheme for Rural Employment ( CSRE )	1972 - 73	For rural employment
Marginal Farmer and Agriculture labor Agency ( MFALA )	1973 - 74	For technical and financial assistance to marginal and small farmers and agricultural labor
Small Farmer Development Agency ( SFDA )	1974 - 75	For technical and financial assistance to small farmers
Command Area Development Program ( CADP )	1974 - 75	To ensure better and rapid utilization of irrigation capacities of medium and large projects
Twenty Point Program ( TPP )	1975	Poverty eradication and raising the standard of living
National Institution of Rural Development	1977	Training, investigation and advisory organization for rural development
Desert Development Program ( DDP )	1977 - 78	For controlling the desert expansion and maintaining environmental balance
Food for Work Program	1977 - 78	Providing food - grains to labor for the works of development
Antyodaya Yojana	1977 - 78	To make the poorest families of the village economically independent ( only in Rajasthan )
Training Rural Youth for Self - Employment ( TRYSEM )	August 15, 1979	Program of training rural youth for self - employment
Integrated Rural Development Program ( IRDP )	October 2, 1980	All - round development of the rural poor through a program of asset endowment for self - employment
National Rural Employment Program ( 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 Program ( RLEGP )	August 15, 1983	For providing employment to landless farmers and laborers
Self - Employment to the Educated Unemployed Youth ( SEEUY )	1983 - 84	To provide financial and technical assistance for self-employment
Farmer Agriculture Service Centers ( FASC )	1983 - 84	To popularize the use of improved agricultural instruments and tool kits
National Fund for Rural Development ( NFRD )	February 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 Action and Rural Technology ( CAPART )	September 1, 1986	To provide assistance for rural prosperity
Self - Employment Program for the Urban Poor ( SEPUP )	September 1986	To provide self-employment to urban poor through provision of subsidy and bank credit.
Service Area Account ( SAA )	February 1988	A new credit policy for rural areas
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
Tourism Finance Corporation of India ( TFCI )	1989	To arrange the finance for the schemes related to tourism
Jawahar Rozgar Yojana	April 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 up to 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 Shelter Upgradation ( SHASU )	1990	To provide employment by the means of shelter up - gradation in the urban areas where population is between 1 to 20 lakhs
National Housing Bank Voluntary Deposit Scheme	1991	To utilize black money for constructing low cost housing for the poor.
National Renewal Fund ( NRF )	February 1992	To protect the interest of the employees of Public sector
Supply of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans	July 1992	To supply modern toolkits to the rural craftsmen except the weavers, tailors, embroiders and tobacco laborers 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 village
Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme ( MPLADS )	December 23, 1993	To sanction 1 crore per year to every Member of Parliament for various development works in their respective areas through DM of the district.
Scheme of Infrastructure Development in Mega Cities ( SIDMC )	1993 - 94	To provide capital through special institutions for water supply, sewage, drainage, urban transportation, land development and improvement of slum projects undertaken in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad
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 prohibiting the migration of population from rural areas to big cities
District Rural Development Agency ( DRDA )	1993	To provide financial assistance for rural development
Mahila Samridhi Yojana	2 October, 1993	To encourage the rural women to deposit in Post Office Saving Account
Child Labor Eradication Scheme	August 15, 1994	To shift child labor from hazardous industries to schools
Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Program ( PMIUPEP )	November 18, 1995	To attack urban poverty in an integrated manner in 345town having population between 50,000 to 1 lakh
Group life Insurance Scheme in Rural Areas	1995 - 96	To provide insurance facilities to rural people on low premium.
National Social Assistance Program	1995	To assist people living below the poverty line.
Ganga Kalyan Yojana	1997 - 98	To provide financial assistance to farmers for exploring and developing ground and surface water resources.
Kasturba Gandhi Education Scheme	August 15, 1997	To establish girls schools in districts having low female literacy rate.
Swarnajayanti Shahari Razgar Yojana ( SJSRY )	December, 1997	To provide gainful employment to urban unemployed and under employed poor through self - employment or wage employment.
Bhagya Shree Bal Kalyan Policy	October 19, 1998	To uplift the girls conditions.
Rajrajeshwari Manila Kalyan Yojana	October 19, 1998	To provide insurance protection to women.
Annapurna Yojana	March 1999	To provide 10 KG food - grains to senior citizens.
Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana	April 1999	For eliminating rural poverty and unemployment and promotion self - employment.
Samagra Awas Yojana	1999 - 2000	For providing Shelter Sanitation and Drinking Water
Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana ( JGSY )	April 1999	Creation of demand driven community village infrastructure
Jan Shree Bima Yojana	August 10, 2000	Providing insurance security to people living poverty line
Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana	2000	To fulfill basic requirements in rural areas
Antyodaya Anna Yojana	December 25, 2000	To provide food security to poor
Ashraya Bima Yojana	June 2001	To provide compensation to laborers who have lost their employment
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana ( PMGSY )	December 25, 2000	To line all villages with pacca road
Khetihar Mazdoor Bima Yojana	2001 - 2002	Insurance of landless Agricultural workers
Shiksha Sahyog Yojana	2001 - 2002	Education of Children below Poverty line
Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojana	September 25, 2001	Providing employment and food security
Jai Prakash Narain Rojgar Guarantee Yojana	Proposed in 2002 - 03	Budget Employment Guarantee in most poor district.
Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana ( VAMBAY )	December 2, 2001	Constructing slum houses in urban areas
National Slum Development Program	August 1996	Development of Urban slums
Social Security Pilot Scheme	January 23, 2004	Scheme for labors of unorganized sector for providing family pension, insurance and medical
Vande Matram Scheme	February 9, 2004	Major initiative in public private partnership during pregnancy check - up
National Food for Work Program	November 14, 2004	Program to intensify the generation of supplementary wage employment
Janani Suraksha Yojana	April 12, 2005	Providing care to expectant mothers
Bharat Nirman Program	December 16, 2005	Development of Rural Infrastructure including six components : Irrigation, Water Supply, Housing, Road, Telephone and Electricity.
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme	February 2, 2006	To provide at least 100 days wage employment in rural areas.

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