Rural Development

The government of Madhya Pradesh has launched CM Gramin Awas Mission to facilitate housing to the rural people. Objectives: To design and develop of integrated e-governance for rural housing sectors To provide shelter who are homeless and under the category of LIG and EWS. Fixing accountability on all stakeholders. Coordination ...

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) aims to skill rural youth who are poor and provide them with jobs having regular monthly wages or above the minimum wages. It is one of the cluster of initiatives of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that seeks to promote rural livelihoods. ...

Name of the scheme:  Rural Innovation fund Guiding Principles of the fund: The activities must have the rural poor in their focus and must be innovative, experimental and demonstrative in nature leading to replicability and commercial viability. The activities funded may involve development of new products, processes, prototypes, technology, patenting ...

Name of the scheme: Farm Innovation & Promotion Fund (FIPF) Objective: To demonstrate bankability of new concepts in agriculture and farm sector. To extend support for developing proto-types and for further development to make it commercial. To support activities connected with market survey for potential assessment/ market acceptability for new ...

Name of the scheme: Scheme for strengthening of Rural Haats- Financing through Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRIs) Purpose:  The scheme envisages PRIs like Grama or Taluk panchayats to develop a new rural haat or improve an existing rural haat in their jurisdiction on pieces of land clearly owned or being transferred ...

Name of the scheme: Rural Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (REDPs) Purpose: REDPs are programmes that support capacity building of rural unemployed people to enable them to set up their own enterprises. Details of the scheme: REDPs are conducted for a particular skill and unemployed rural youth are trained in these programmes. ...

Name of the scheme: Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) Purpose: The main purpose of this scheme is to bring the assisted poor families above the Poverty Line by ensuring appreciable sustained level of income over a period of time. Strategies: The SGSY is different from earlier Programmes, in terms of ...

National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management (MANAGE) has designed a one-year diploma course titled ‘Diploma in Agricultural Extension Services for Input Dealers (DAESI)’, which imparts relevant and location-specific agricultural education to equip input dealers with sufficient knowledge to transform them into para-extension professionals so as to enable them to address ...

Introduction: “Skill Training of Rural Youth (STRY)”, aimed at imparting skill-based training to rural youth on agri-based vocational areas in compliance with National Policy on Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-2015 in agriculture & allied areas to promote employment in rural areas. Objectives: Offer modular skill training opportunities to rural youths including ...

Indian government is all set to encourage entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem in rural India under the upcoming Deendayal Upadhyay Swaniyojan Yojana (DUSY). Rural Development Ministry is designing this scheme and it will be backed by Mudra Bank Loans, self-help groups and various other credit facilities. On the line of Startup ...