| No. Employment Program (Yojna) | Objective |
| 1. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) / Suvarana Jayanti Gram Svarojgar Yojna (SGSY) | To encourage poor families for self employment so that they can get more income than the poverty line |
| 2. Wage Employment Schemes | To provide self employment to poor in non agricultural season and during flood, drought, scarcity and other natural calamities. |
| 3. Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna (PMRY) | To enable educated unemployed people to start their own ventures and hence become employed |
| 4. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (NREGA) | To provide employment to one person per family for minimum 100 days a year to rural and urban poor as well as lower middle class families |
| 5. Housing Schemes | To provide houses to urban poor at very reasonable prices |
| 6. Social Security Schemes | To provide accidental and life insurance, pension, etc. |
| 7. Jan Dhan Yojna | To encourage poor to open bank account and to deposit subsidy directly into their account |