Welfare Schemes

National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA), Government of India in 23rd September, 2013 by replacing the existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY). The NULM will focus on organizing urban poor in their strong grassroots level institutions, creating opportunities ...

Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) envisages a “Slum Free India” with inclusive and equitable cities in which every citizen has access to basic civic infrastructure, social amenities and decent shelter. Objectives: Improving and provisioning of housing, basic civic infrastructure and social amenities in intervened slums. Enabling reforms to address some of ...

“Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Housing for All (Urban)” Mission for urban area will be implemented during 2015-2022 and this Mission will provide central assistance to implementing agencies through States and UTs for providing houses to all eligible families/ beneficiaries by 2022. 1.2 Mission will be implemented as Centrally Sponsored ...

Name of the scheme: Scheme for the award of fellowship to outstanding persons in the field of Culture Purpose: The main purpose of this fellowship is to award fellowships to outstanding persons in various creative fields of culture. Fields/Areas: Senior/Junior Fellowships in the Field of Performing, Literary and Plastic Arts ...

Name of the scheme: Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural Research Purpose: The Scheme has been introduced in order to strengthen various institutions under the Ministry of Culture (MoC) and other identified cultural institutions in the country, by encouraging scholars/academicians to affiliate themselves with these institutions to work on projects of ...

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 ...