| Programme/Plan/Institution | Year of beginning | Objective/Description |
| 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. |
| Programme/Plan/Institution | Year of beginning | Objective/Description |
| Child Labour Eradication Scheme | August 15, 1994 | To shift child labour from hazardous industries to schools. |
| Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP) | November 18,1995 | To attack urban poverty in an integrated manner in 345 towns 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 Programme | 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. |
| Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar 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 | Oct. 19, 1998 | To uplift the girls conditions. |
| Rajrajeshwari Mahila Kalyan Yojana (RMKY) | Oct. 19, 1998 | To provide insurance protection to women. |
| Annapurna Yojana | March 1999 | To provide 10 kg. food grains to senior citizens (who do not get pension). |
| Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SJGSY) | April 1999 | For eliminating rural poverty and unemployment and promoting self- employment. |
| Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) | April 1999 | Creation of demand driven community village infrastructure |
| Jan Shree Bima Yojana | Aug. 10, 2000 | Providing Insurance Security to people living below the poverty line. |
| Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana | 2000 | To fulfil basic requirements in rural areas. |
| Antyodaya Anna Yojana | Dec. 25, 2000 | To provide food security to the poor. |
| Ashraya Bima Yojana | June 2001 | To provide compensation to labourers who have lost their employment. |
| Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) | Dec. 25, 2000 | To line all villages with Pucca Road. |
| Khetihar Mazdoor Bima Yojana | 2001-2002 | Insurance of Landless Agricultural workers. |
| Shiksha Sahyog Yojana | 2001-2002 | Education for Children below Poverty Line. |
| Sampurna Gramin Rojgar Yojana | Sept. 25, 2001 | Providing employment and food security to rural people. |
| Jai Prakash Narain Rojgar Guarantee Yojana | Proposed in 2002-03 Budget | Employment Guarantee in most poor districts. |
| Swajaldhara Yojana | 2002 | Started in Dec. 2002, for ensuring drinking water supply to all villages by 2004. |
| Hariyali Pariyojana | 2003 | Inaugurated on January 27, 2003 by the Prime Minister. It aims at tackling the problems of irrigation and drinking water, along with boosting tree plantation programme and fisheries developments in rural areas. |
| Social Security Pilot Scheme | Jan. 23, 2004 | Scheme for labourers of unorganised sector for providing family pension, insurance and medical. |
| Vande Matram Scheme | Feb. 9, 2004 | Major initiative in public-private partnership during pregnancy check-up. |
| National Food for Work Programme | November 14, 2004 | Inaugurated by the Prime Minister on November 14,2004. This programme is to be implemented initially in 150 districts of the country. It aims at providing 100 days' employment in a year to all able bodied unemployed rural folk. |
| Janani Suraksha Yojana | April 12, 2005 | Takes the place of National Maternity Benefit Scheme. It will be a part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). |
| Bharat Nirman Yojana | Dec. 16, 2005 | Development of Rural infrastructure including six components: Irrigation, Water supply, Housing, Road, Telephone and Eelectricity. |
| National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) | Feb. 2, 2006 | The provisions are the same as for food for work programme. The scheme was enforced in 200 districts of the country to begin with. To provide at least 100 days wages employment in rural areas in a year. The scheme is 100% centrally sponsored. |