7 Government Schemes That You Should Know

Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Launched by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOPNG), this scheme aims to provide clean cooking fuel, specifically LPG, to rural and underprivileged households.

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana assures financial services like availability of basic saving bank account, access to need based credit, remittances facility, insurance and pension.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

Launched in 2015 by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, this scheme aims to provide pucca house to all eligible urban household.

PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana

PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana is aims to provide minimum income support to Rs. 6000 to all small and marginal farmers per year. The sum is payable i three equal instalment of Rs. 2000 each quarter of the year.

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (Ayushman Bharat)

PM-JAY is the largest health assurance scheme in the world which aims at providing a health cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care.. The scheme aims to provide healthcare to over 12 crores poor and vulnerable families.

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme

The Central Government introduced the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme to address concern about gender discrimination and women empowerment. The scheme aims to promote education for female students, provide toilets for females, and reducing the number of anemic girls.

Swachh Bharat

Launched in 2014, Swachh Bharat Mission focuses on making India free from open defecation. Household toilets were built under this scheme. The Second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2021. The vision is to achieve garbage free status for all cities by 2026.

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