Employment Generation Programmes

S.No.	Employment Generation Programme	Year of Beginning	Objective/Description
1	Employment Guarantee Scheme of Maharashtra	1972	To assist the economically weaker sections of the rural society.
2	Crash Scheme for Rural Employmement (CSRE)	1972	For rural employment
3	Training Rural Youth for Self-Employment (TRYSEM)	1979	Program for Trainingrural youth for self employment.
4	Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)	1980	All-round development of the rural poor through a program of asset endowment for self employment.
5	National Rural Employment Program (NREP)	1980	To provide profitable employment opportunities to the rural poor.
6	Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Program (RLEGP)	1983	For providing employment to landless farmers and laborers.
7	Self-employment to the Educated Unemployed Youth (SEEUY)	1983	To provide financial and technical assistance for self-employment.
8	Self-Employment programme for Urban Poor (SEPUP)	1986	To provide self employment to urban poor through provision of subsidy and bank credit.
9	Jawahar Rozgar Yojana	1989	For providing employment to rural unemployed.
10	Nehru Rozgar Yojana	1989	For providing employment to urban unemployed.
11	Scheme of Urban Wage Employment (SUWE)	1990	To provide wages employment after arranging the basic facilities for poor people in the urban areas where population is less than one lakh.
12	Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS)	1993	To provide employment of at least 100 days in a year in village.
13	Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)	1997	To provide gainful employment to urban unemployed and under employed poor through self employment or wage employment.
14	Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SYGSY)	1999	For eliminating rural poverty and unemployment and promoting self employment.
15	Jai Prakash Narayan Rojgar Guarantee Yojana (JPNRGY)	Proposed in 2002-03 budget	Employment guarantee in most poor distt.
16	National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme	2006	To provide atleast 100 days wage employment in rural areas.
17	Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana	2001	To provide wage employment and food security in rural areas and also to create durable economic ans social assets.
18	Food for Work Programme	2001	To give food thrugh wage employment in the drought affected areas in eight states. Wages are paid by the state governments partly in cash and partly in foodgrains.
19	Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)	2005	To create a right based framework for wage employment programmes and makes the government legally bound to provide employment to those who seek it.
20	Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)	2008	To generate employment opportunities in rural as well as urban areas through setting up of new self-employment ventures/projects/micro enterprises.