- National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) (1980): Launched to use the unemployed and the underemployed workers to build community assets.
- Rural Landless Employment Guarantee (RLEG) (1983): Launched to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to one member from each rural landless household.
- Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) (1989) :The programme aims to alleviate poverty through creating supplementary employment opportunities for rural poor during agriculture recess period.
- Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) (1993): Launched to provide employment during lean agricultural season. The primary objective of EAS is to create additional wage employment opportunities during the period of acute shortage of wage employment through manual work for the rural poor living below the poverty line.
- Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)(1999) : Launched to create demand-driven community village infrastructure including durable assets at the village level and skills to enable the rural poor to increase the opportunities for sustained employment.
- Swarna Jyanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (1999): This Yojana is a holistic package covering all aspects of self employment such as organization of poor into self help groups, training, credit, infrastructure and marketing. A credit-cum-subsidy programme, the beneficiaries under this scheme are called swarojgaris. This scheme is being implemented by the central and the state government on a 3:1 cost ratio.
- Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY, 2001) : Launched merging JGSY and EAS, this programme aims at providing wage employment.
- National Food for Work Programme (NFWP, 2004) : Launched with the exclusive focus on the 150 identifed backward districts. The aim was to generate additional supplementary wage employment and create assets.
- National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS, 2006) : Launched to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to one member from each rural household and create community assets.
- Prime Minister - Rural Employment Generation Programmes (2008): The objective of this programme is to generate employment opportunities in rural as well as urban areas through setting up of new self employment ventures/projects/micro enterprises. The scheme is formulated by merging Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) and Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP).
- Rural Self Employment training Institutes (RSETI’s): These institutes are being established in most districts of the state for imparting training to rural BPL youth in collaboration with the leading district banks. The state government will provide land free of cost for these institutions to the concerned leading banks.
- Prime Minister’s Shram Awards’ Scheme (2012): The objective of this scheme is to recognize the outstanding contributions made by workmen as defined in the Industrial Dispute Act 1947, in organizations both in public and private sector.
