Haryana Quiz: Major Schemes of the Haryana Government

The national Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign was launched by the Prime Minister from Panipat on 22 January 2015, and Haryana was chosen for the launch because its child sex ratio was among the lowest in the country.

Under the Mukhyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana, begun in 2019, a family whose yearly income is up to Rs 1.80 lakh and whose land is up to five acres receives Rs 6,000 a year, part of it paid directly and part put into pension and insurance cover for the members.

The Parivar Pehchan Patra gives each family of the state a family identity number with verified details of its members and its income, and pensions, scholarships, ration and scheme benefits are then delivered by reading that record.

The scheme, begun in 2020, pays an incentive for every acre on which a farmer gives up paddy for a crop that needs less water, and adds free seed and help with sowing, because the water table under the paddy belt of Kurukshetra, Kaithal and the neighbouring districts has fallen…

Chirayu Haryana, announced in 2022, gives the same cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh a family a year as Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, but to families of the state whose yearly income is below Rs 1.80 lakh, which brings in many households that the central list leaves…

Under the Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana of 2018 the state fixes a protected rate for these vegetables and pays the grower the difference when the market price falls below it, because a vegetable cannot be stored like grain and its price crashes in a good year.

The scheme, begun in 2016, registers unemployed young people who have passed the intermediate, graduated or taken a postgraduate degree, pays them a monthly allowance that rises with the qualification, and adds an honorarium for up to a hundred hours of work a month in a government or private office…

The scheme allows a member of an Antyodaya family, that is a family with a yearly income below Rs 1.80 lakh, to travel a thousand kilometres free in a year in the buses of Haryana Roadways, the card being issued against the family’s Parivar Pehchan Patra and the journeys recorded…

The card works like the Kisan Credit Card but for livestock: the owner of an animal gets working capital on the strength of the animal, repayable in instalments at a low rate of interest, which suits a state whose Murrah buffalo is a brand of its own and whose milk…

The Chief Minister’s Window, opened in 2014, takes complaints from citizens at district offices and online, tracks them against a time limit and reports to the Chief Minister’s office, so it is the grievance channel of the state government.

The scheme, begun in 2020, distributes napkins every month through anganwadi workers and self-help groups to women and adolescent girls of families below the poverty line, the aim being both health and school attendance.