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 ...

Introduction: Despite implementation of the organized seed programme since the mid 60s, the seed replacement rate has only reached the level of 15% 85% of the seeds used are farm saved. It is, therefore, necessary to improve the stock of farm saved seeds for enhancing crop production/productivity. For this, seed ...