-List of Important

Government Schemes2013-2016
In this eBook we have compiled a list of on-going
schemes and their functions, launched by the Central and
State Governments of India.
The eBook is specifically designed to serve as a handy
guide for aspirants appearing for competitive exams like
the SSC CGL, IBPS, SBI, RBI and the like.

Government Schemes in India

Volume 1 (2016)

List of Important Government Schemes 2013-16

Name of the scheme

Objective & Target

Objective: To establish infrastructure that could ensure

Atal Mission for

adequate robust sewerage networks and water supply for urban
Rejuvenation and Urban transformation.
Transformation (AMRUT)
Target: Ascertaining that everyone has access to tap water and

Launched: June, 2015

sewerage facilities, maintenance of greenery and open spaces,

and smart facilities like weather prediction, internet and Wi-Fi.
Objective: To give substantial boost to the innovation ecosystem

Atal Innovation Mission

and SETU in NITI AAYOG

and to catalyze the entrepreneur spirit in the country.

Launched: February, 2016

and talent utilization and to provide a platform where innovative

Target: Entrepreneurship promotion through self-employment

ideas are generated.

Objective: To bring pension benefits to people of the

Atal Pension Yojana

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Launched: 9th May, 2015

unorganized sector.
Target: Reduce the number of zero balance accounts in the
country.
Objective: To increase awareness about the cleanliness of the
children all over India.
Target: It will be observed from 14th to 19th November. The
campaign has been planned out in the following way:

Bal Swachta Abhiyan

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Launched: 14th November,

2014

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Yojana

Objective: To generate awareness and improve the efficiency of

welfare services meant for women.

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Launched: 22nd January,
2015

14th November: Clean Schools/Surroundings/Play areas

15th November: Clean Food
17th November: Clean Self, Personal Hygiene, Child
Safety
18th November: Clean Drinking Water
19th November: Clean Toilet

Target: To ensure education, survival and protection of the girl

child, and prevent gender biased sex selective elimination.

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DBT Scheme for

Kerosene
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Launched: April, 2016

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Objective: To enable consumers to pay non-subsidized price of

kerosene at the time of purchase.
Target: To enable users to buy the cooking fuel at market rate
and get financial support in their bank accounts.

Deenadayal Upadhyaya
Grameen Kaushalya
Yojana
Launched: 25th September,
2014

Objective: To enhance the employability of rural youth.

Target: Start 1000-2000 training centres across India by 2016.

Objective: To provide electrification to all villages.

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Deendayal Upadhyaya
Gram Jyoti Yojana
Launched: 2015

Target: To invest 756 Billion rupees for rural electrification,

feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers and
regular supply to other consumers and metering to reduce the
losses.
Objective: Aims to bring Digital empowerment to India and aid

Digital India
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Launched: 1st July, 2015

in its transition to becoming a knowledge economy.

Target: To create 17 million direct and 85 million indirect jobs,
while significantly reducing Indian imports of electronics.

Objective: To develop the villages located along the main stem

Ganga Gram Yojana

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Launched: January, 2016

of river Ganga.
Target: To develop 1600 villages situated along the banks of
river Ganga.

Objective: To strengthen Panchayati Raj in villages and ensure

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Gram Uday Se Bharat

Uday Abhiyan
Launched: April, 2016

social harmony in villages.

Target: To promote rural development and foster farmers
welfare and livelihoods of the poor.

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HRIDAY (National
Heritage City
Development and
Augmentation Yojana)
scheme

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Objective: Conserving and preserving the heritage characters of

12 cities: Amritsar, Varanasi, Gaya, Puri, Ajmer, Mathura,
Dwarka, Badami, Velankanni, Kanchipuram, Warangal
(Telangana) and Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh).
Target: To develop tourism and job creation and bring together

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Launched: 21 January,
2015

urban planning, economic growth and heritage conservation by

2017.

Indradhanush Scheme
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Objective: To immunize unvaccinated children.

Target: To cover all those children by 2020 who are either

Launched: 25th December,

2014

unvaccinated, or partially vaccinated against vaccine preventable

diseases.

Kisan Vikas Patra

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Objective: To provide attractive returns to money invested.

Target: To provide double the amount invested, after 8 years 4

Launched: 2014

months, with an interest of 8.7% per annum.

Objective: To encourage and facilitate the overseas Indian
workers.

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Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Target: Provide government contribution to:

Suraksha Yojana
Save for their return and resettlement

Launched: 2013

Save for their old age

Obtain a life insurance cover against natural death during the
period of coverage.
Objective: To transform India into a global design and

Make in India
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Launched: 25th Sept, 2014

manufacturing hub.
Target: 24 manufacturing cities envisaged. In the first phase, 7
cities to be completed by 2019.
Objective: Regulate lending and borrowing activities in the

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MUDRA Bank Yojana

Launched: 8th April, 2015

microfinance setup of India.

Target: To provide crediting services and financial support to the
microfinance entities, that are functioning across the country.
Objective: Clean and protect the Ganga river in a comprehensive

Namami Gange
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Launched: July, 2014

manner.
Target: To arrest the pollution and revive the Ganga river within
18 years.

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National Policy for Skill

Development and
Entrepreneurship
Launched: 2015

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Objective: To create an ecosystem of empowerment and

promote a culture of innovation based entrepreneurship.
Target: To bridge existing skill gaps, promote industry
engagement, leverage technology and promote greater
opportunities for apprenticeship training.
Objective: To Spur, social, economic and infrastructure

National Rurban Mission

development in rural areas.

Launched: February, 2016

Target: To develop a cluster of 300 smart villages over the next 3

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years across the country.

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National Sports Talent

Search Scheme
Launched: 2015

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Padhe Bharat Badhe

Bharat
Launched: 2014

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Pandit Madan Mohan

Malaviya National
Mission
Launched: 2015

Objective: To find and nurture sports potential and make them

excel at national and international sports competitions.
Target: To identify sports talent among students in the age
group of 8-12 years and nurture it.
Objective: To improve reading and writing skills of children in
classes 1 and 2.
Target: To make children keen and self-sufficient writers and
readers and enable them to possess the skills that last a lifetime.
Objective: To address various shortcomings related to teachers
and teaching across the educational spectrum.
Target: To provide1 lakh qualified teachers for schools, colleges
and universities, create 87 new institutional structures and
create subject-based networks in various disciplines.
Objective: To create conductive environment for industrial
development and doing business with ease and expand
government support to impart skill training for workers.

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Pandit Deendayal
Upadhyay Shramev
Jayate Karyakram
Launched: 16th October,
2014

Target:

Allot Labour Identification Number to 6 lakh units

Upload inspection reports within 72 hours of inspection

Enable 4.17 crore employees to have their PF account

portable and accessible

Support manufacturing units by reimbursing 50% of the

stipend paid during first two years of training

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Pradhan Mantri Gram

Sinchai Yojana
Launched: 1st July, 2015

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Objective: To irrigate fields of farmers across the country and

promote effective use of water.
Target: To attract investments in Irrigation system and expand
the cultivable land in the country.
Objective: Welfare the poor people through effective

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Pradhan Mantri Garib

Kalyan Yojana
Launched: April 2015

implementation of schemes.
Target: To apprise member of parliaments to help in effective
implementation of government run schemes for the welfare of
poor across the country.

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Pradhan Mantri Jan

Aushadhi Yojana
Launched: 2015

Pradhan Mantri Jan

Dhan Yojana
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Objective: Improve the quality of health care and make it

accessible across the country.
Target: To provide good quality health care by improving access
to quality medicines at affordable costs.
Objective: To achieve financial inclusion of every individual who
does not have a bank account.

Launched: 28th August,

2014

Target: To ensure financial access to everyone who was not able

to get benefits of various finance related government schemes.

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Pradhan Mantri Jeevan

Jyoti Bima Yojana
Launched: 9th May, 2015

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Pradhan Mantri
Suraksha Bima Yojana
Launched: 9th May, 2015

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Pradhan Mantri Fasal

Bima Yojana
Launched: January, 2016

Objective: Increase the number of insurance.

Target: To reduce number of zero balance accounts.
Objective: To increase insurance penetration level in the
country.
Target: The insurance covers death or disablement of the policy
holder caused due to accident or accidental injuries.

Objective: To boost farming sector in the country.

Target: Aims to reduce the premium burden on farmers and
ensure early settlement of crop Insurance claim for the full
insured sum.

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Prasad (Pilgrimage
Rejuvenation and
Spiritual Augmentation
Drive)

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Objective: To promote tourism and Develop cultural places.

Target: To achieve 1% share of international tourist arrivals by
2016-17.

Launched: 2014

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Pradhan Mantri Awas

Yojana
Launched: 2015

Objective: To provide houses at affordable rates.

Target: To provide interest subsidy of 6.5% on housing loan for
15 years and use sustainable and eco-friendly technologies
during construction process.
Objective: To provide LPG connections to BPL households in the

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Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala country.

Yojana

Target: To replace the unclean cooking fuels mostly used in rural

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Launched: 1 May, 2016

India with clean and more efficient LPG.

Objective: To leverage the potential for science, mathematics

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Rashtriya Avishkar
Abhiyan
Launched: 9th July, 2015

and technology learning in non-classroom settings.

Target: To make Science, Mathematics and Technology exciting
for children and encourage them to have an enduring interest in
the subjects both inside and outside the classroom.

Sansad Adarsh Gram

Yojana
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Launched: 11th October,
2014

Skill India
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Launched: 15th July, 2015

Objective: To develop social, cultural and infrastructures in

villages.
Target: To develop infrastructure of 3 villages by 2019 and 8
villages by 2024.
Objective: To create jobs for the youth of the country.
Target: Aims at providing training and skill development to 500
million youth of our country by 2020.
Objective: To drive economic growth and improve the quality of

Smart Cities
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Launched: 2015

life of people by enabling local development and harnessing

technology as a means to create smart outcomes for citizens.
Target: To cover 100 cities in 5-year duration.

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

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Launched: 2nd October,

2014

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Objective: To make India clean.

Target: To provide facilities to every family including toilets, solid
and liquid waste disposal systems, village cleanliness, and safe
and adequate drinking water supply by 2nd October, 2019.

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Swachh Vidyalaya
Abhiyan
Launched: 2014

Objective: To provide toilets in all government schools.

Target: To provide separate toilets for boys and girls in all
government schools within 1 year.
Objective: To accelerate domestic as well as International
tourism in India and to develop theme based tourist circuits in

Swadesh Darshan
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Launched: Jan, 2015

the country on the principles of high tourist value,

competitiveness and sustainability, in an integrated manner.
Target: Expecting to attract over 13 million foreign tourists by
2020.

Sukanya Samridhi Yojana Objective: To ensure bright future for girl children in India.
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Launched: 22nd Jan, 2015

Soil Health Card Scheme

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Target: To provide financial security and independence to the

girls and help them with their education and marriage.
Objective: Issue soil card to farmers to help them get good
harvest by studying the quality of soil.

Launched: February, 2015

Target: Issue soil cards to about 14 crore farmers spread across

India.

Shyama Prasad Mukherji

Rurban Mission
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Objective: To drive economic, social and infrastructure

development in rural areas.
Target: Provisioning of economic activities, developing skills and

Launched: September,
2015

local entrepreneurship and providing infrastructure amenities in

rural areas.

Standup India Scheme

Objective: To promote entrepreneurship among people from

Launched: 5th April, 2016

SC/ST and woman.

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Target: To provide loan between Rs.10 lakh and up to Rs.1 crore

to entrepreneurs for setting up new enterprise.

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Objective: To provide an opportunity to children to experience

Seema Darshan
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Launched: January, 2016

the border environment and to foster patriotism and

nationalism among the students.
Target: To make students visit border areas of our country and
present them before our soldiers. To showcase the tradition and
culture of our country through traditional songs and dances.

Special home for widows

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Launched: March, 2016

Objective: To provide homes to widows in Vrindavan.

Target: To construct special Homes on 1.424 hectare of land for
1000 widows at Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
Objective: To strengthen research in areas of Yoga and

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Science and Technology

of Yoga and Meditation
(SATYAM)
Launched: November, 2015

Meditation.
Target: To identify various issues and challenges related to
human well-being and address them. To investigate on the effect
of Yoga and meditation on physical and mental health, and on
the effect of Yoga and meditation on the body, brain and mind.

Udaan Scheme
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Launched: 2013

Unearth Black Money

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Bill passed: 14th May, 2015

Objective: To provide an exposure to the unemployed graduates

to the best of corporate India.
Target: Reach 40,000 youth in J&K in 5 years.
Objective: To unearth black money by enabling those with
undisclosed income and asset located in India.

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Government Schemes in India

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List of Top State Government Schemes 2015-16

Name of the scheme

Objective and Target

Amma seeds
1

(Tamil Nadu)

Objective: To increase agricultural production in the state.

Target: To encourage farmers to use certified seeds sold at

Launched: January,
2016

reasonable prices.

Amma Call Centre

2

(Tamil Nadu)
Launched: January.
2016

Adapting Homes for

the differently-abled
3

(Haryana)
Launched: March,
2016

Mission Bhagiratha
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(Telangana)

Objective: To make governance more accessible to public.

Target: To receive at least 15,000 calls per day by citizens, round the
clock.

Objective: To provide pension in advance to differently-abled

people.
Target: To give 6 months pension in advance to persons with
disabilities for adapting their homes as per their requirement.

Objective: To provide Safe Drinking Water in remote village areas in

Telangana.
Target: To provide clean drinking water and sustain permanent

Launched: August,
2016

solution to drinking water woes and rejuvenate more than 45,000

water tanks.

Mukhyamantri
Santwana Harish
Yojana

(Karnataka)
Launched: March,
2016

Objective: To provide immediate medical relief to victims.

Target: To provide free treatment to accident victims for the first 48
hours in the nearest hospital be it Government or Private Hospital,
with financial aid up to Rs.25,000 during the first two days.

Nai Manzil
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(Jammu and
Kashmir)
Launched: January,
2016

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Objective: Enable minority youths to seek better employment.

Target: To provide 3-month skill development training to girls from
minority communities.

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Rani Laxmi Bai

Pension Scheme
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(Uttar Pradesh)
Launched: 2015

Utkarsh Bangla
Scheme
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(West Bengal)
Launched: February,
2016

Water Resources
Information System
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(Telangana)
Launched: August,
2016

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Objective: To provide financial assistance to the poor and backward

class families living below poverty line.
Target: To give rs.400 to selected families every 6 months.

Objective: To give vocational training to school dropouts

Target: Provide training ranging from 400 to 1200 hours free of
charge.

Objective: To keep an eye on states water resources.

Target: To assess the accurate reserves of water in thousands of
tanks and reservoirs across the state.

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