This page is a categorised list of the flagship government schemes the CAPF (Assistant Commandants) wiki covers for Paper I recall and Paper II essays. The schemes are owned by major economic schemes and the current-events framework note, distilled into concept cards, and held as machine-readable rows in _dict/schemes.yaml. This index is navigation and quick recall only; the authoritative catalogue of modules is master index, and the build discipline is in PIPELINE concept dictionary.
Two cautions apply throughout, per sources and honesty policy. First, the year given is the launch year (or, where marked, the Act year); coverage figures, benefit amounts and current status are currency-sensitive, so verify the latest against the Union Budget and PIB rather than committing a number. Second, several benefit amounts and eligibility bands shift with notifications; where the YAML flags "verify the latest", carry that caution. The facts below derive from the owner note and the Budget and PIB primary sources.
This is the dimension a general economy list misses and CAPF tests. Visible, timely delivery of housing, cooking gas, water, health cover and income support in border districts, the Left-Wing-Extremism affected "Red Corridor", and the north-east is treated as a counter-insurgency and governance instrument, not merely as welfare. The State competing with insurgent or extremist parallel structures through delivery is a recurring Paper II internal-security essay theme. See left wing extremism and naxalism and theme internal security.
- Central-sector schemes are funded fully by the Centre (for example PM-KISAN).
- Centrally sponsored schemes share cost between the Centre and the States in a fixed ratio (for example MGNREGA, PMAY, Swachh Bharat).
- Delivery rails: Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) over the JAM trinity (Jan Dhan accounts, Aadhaar, Mobile), tracked by the Public Financial Management System (PFMS).
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) |
2014 |
Finance |
No-frills bank accounts for the unbanked; the "J" in JAM |
| Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) |
2015 |
Finance |
Low-cost life insurance for account holders |
| Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) |
2015 |
Finance |
Low-cost accidental-death and disability cover |
| Atal Pension Yojana (APY) |
2015 |
Finance |
Guaranteed pension for the unorganised sector |
| Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) |
2015 |
Finance |
Collateral-free micro-credit (Shishu, Kishore, Tarun) |
| Stand-Up India |
2016 |
Finance |
Loans for greenfield SC, ST and women enterprises |
| Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) |
2015 |
Finance |
Small-savings scheme for the girl child |
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| MGNREGA (Act) |
2005 |
Rural Development |
Up to 100 days of guaranteed rural wage employment per household per year |
| PM-KISAN |
2019 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Annual income support to landholding farmer families |
| PM Kisan Maan-Dhan (PM-KMY) |
2019 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Contributory pension for small and marginal farmers |
| PM-SVANidhi |
2020 |
Housing and Urban Affairs |
Working-capital micro-loans to urban street vendors |
| PM Vishwakarma |
2023 |
MSME |
Skilling, toolkit and credit for traditional artisans |
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) |
2014 |
Jal Shakti (rural) and Housing and Urban Affairs (urban) |
Sanitation, toilets, open-defecation-free India |
| Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) |
2015 |
Rural Development (Gramin) and Housing and Urban Affairs (Urban) |
Pucca housing for all eligible households |
| Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) |
2016 |
Petroleum and Natural Gas |
LPG connections to women of poor households |
| Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) |
2019 |
Jal Shakti |
Functional tap-water connection to every rural household (Har Ghar Jal) |
| National Food Security Act (NFSA) |
2013 |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Subsidised foodgrains as a legal right to about two-thirds of people |
| PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) |
2020 |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Free foodgrains to NFSA beneficiaries (verify the latest status) |
| Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY) |
2018 |
Health and Family Welfare |
Health cover up to 5 lakh rupees per family per year (verify the latest coverage) |
| One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) |
2019 |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Portability of PDS entitlements across States |
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| Skill India / PMKVY |
2015 |
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
Short-term skill training and certification of youth |
| Start-up India |
2016 |
DPIIT (Commerce and Industry) |
Tax and regulatory incentives for start-ups |
| Make in India |
2014 |
DPIIT (Commerce and Industry) |
India as a global manufacturing hub |
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) |
2016 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Crop insurance against yield loss |
| Soil Health Card (SHC) |
2015 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Soil-nutrient status and fertiliser advice |
| Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) |
2015 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare / Jal Shakti |
Expand irrigation and water-use efficiency |
| e-NAM |
2016 |
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
Online pan-India electronic trading for produce |
| Scheme |
Launch |
Ministry |
Objective in one line |
| Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) |
2015 |
Women and Child Development |
Improve the child sex ratio; educate the girl child |
| POSHAN Abhiyaan |
2018 |
Women and Child Development |
Reduce malnutrition, stunting and anaemia (National Nutrition Mission) |
- Acronym confusions: PMJJBY is life insurance, PMSBY is accident insurance, PM-JAY is health insurance; do not interchange them.
- Year hooks: many flagship schemes launched in 2014 to 2016; the farmer income and water schemes cluster in 2018 to 2019; the newest in this list is PM Vishwakarma (2023).
- Ministry hooks: the financial-inclusion set is Finance; the housing-sanitation-water set is split between Jal Shakti and Housing and Urban Affairs; the farmer set is Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
- Mode hooks: MGNREGA, NFSA and Ayushman Bharat are framed as legal or near-legal entitlements (Acts or rights-based), unlike the discretionary schemes.