| |Programme |Beginning | |
| 1 | Employment Guarantee |1972 |To assist the economically weaker sections of the rural society. |
| |Scheme of Maharashtra | | |
| 2 | Crash Scheme for Rural|1972 | For rural employment |
| |Employmement (CSRE) | | |
| 3 | Training Rural Youth |1979 | Program for Trainingrural youth for self employment. |
| |for Self-Employment | | |
| |(TRYSEM) | | |
| 4 | Integrated Rural | 1980 |All-round development of the rural poor through a program of asset endowment for self |
| |Development Programme | |employment. |
| |(IRDP) | | |
| 5 | National Rural |1980 |To provide profitable employment opportunities to the